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northern South America, but so far as they can be assigned to definite 

 locaHties all of them apply to the one or more lowland species generally 

 recognized under the names gyninotis and savannarum. Among these 

 names is one based on ver>' defective material supposed to have been 

 received from Bogota, Colombia, which is in a highland region, but 

 the material itself offers no eWdence to the contrary' and all the prob- 

 abilities favor the \new that the animal was actually killed in the low- 

 lands, its horns merely having passed through the highlands in transit 

 to the coast whence they were taken to a European museum. 



The status of the various names may be discussed briefly as follows:* 



1833. Cerctts gymtwtis Wiegmann, Isis, p. 963, 1833. 



This species is usually credited to Colombia, but its tv-pe locality is 

 the Orinoco region, doubtless the savannas on the lower part of the 

 river, for although it is stated in the original description that it came 

 from Colombia this is qualified by the information that its former pos- 

 sessor had received it ^^a St. Thomas (W. I.) from the Orinoco region. 

 For purposes of comparison, specimens from the savannas east of Lake 

 Maracaibo, Venezuela, have been used to represent this species but it 

 is by no means certain that they are identical with the Orinoco animal 

 of which no complete specimens are available. 



1846. Cervus spinosus Gay and Ger\-ais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 3., 

 Zool., V, pp. 93-94, 1846. 



This name has priority over savannarum and, so far as can be 

 judged from the description, was fotmded upon the same species. It 

 has page priority over Cervus goudotii and is antedated only by C. 

 gytnnotis. Therefore it should be the recognized name of the Guiana 

 deer unless that species proves not to differ from the animal of the 

 lower Orinoco region in which case it would become a sjTionxTn of 

 gyninotis. The essential part of the original description is as follows: 

 "Ainsi G. Cuvier fait connaitre, comme se rapportant au Cervus 

 virginianus, des bois envoyes de Cayenne par M. Poiteau; mais il est 

 e\'ident qu'ils sont d'une autre espece. Ces bois sont petits, epineux 

 k un seul andouiller, etc. Nous signalerons cette espece a I'attention 

 des zoologistes sur le nom de Cervu^ spinosus J" 



1846. Cervus goudotii Gay and Ger\ais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 3, 

 V, p. 94, 1846. 



The basis of this name was a small single-branched horn, prob- 

 ably still preser%"ed in the Paris Musetun. It was said to have been 

 received from "les regions elevees de la Nouvelle-Grenade." At 



' For friendly aid in consulting books not contained in Chicago libraries, I am 

 indebted to Mr. N. Hollister of the U. S. National Museum. 



