334 ERETHIZON. COENDU. 



Erethizon dorsatus Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F, C. M. Pub., ii, 

 1901, p. 264, pi. XXIV. Zool. Ser. 

 Canadian Tree Porcupine. 



Type locality. Eastern Canada. 



Geogr. Distr. Canada, west to the Saskatchewan Plains, south to 

 central Maine and northern New Hampshire and west of the Connec- 

 ticut River nearly to the border of Massachusetts. Formerly it ex- 

 tended along the Alleghanies through Pennsylvania into Virginia and 

 possibly west to Kentucky. North in Canada it goes to the Barren 

 Grounds, and the limit of trees. 



a. Erethizon dorsatum picinum Bangs. 



Erethizon dorsatus picinus Bangs, Proc. N. E. Zool. Club, 11, 1900, 

 p. 37. Elliot, Syn. N. Am. Mamm., F. C. M. Pub., 11, 1901, 

 Append., p. 431. Zool. Ser. 

 Labrador Porcupine. 



Type locality. Lance au Loop, Strait of Belle Isle, Labrador. 



Geogr. Distr. Labrador. Range unknown. 



Genus 106. Coeiidu. 



Coendou Lac^p., Disc, d'ouvert. et de cloture du Cours Hist. Nat., 

 Suppl., 1799, p. II. Type Hystrix prehensilis Linnseus. 

 Eucritus Fisch., Mdm. Soc. Imp. Mosc, v, 1817, pp. 372, 411. 

 Sinetheres (sic) F. Cuv., Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ix, 1822, p. 



433- 

 Laboura Billb., Syn. Faun. Scandinav., Mamm., i, 1828, Consp. A. 

 Cercolabes Brandt, Mamm. Exot. Nov., in Mem. Acad. Imp. St. 



Petersb., Ser. 3, iii, 1835, P- 55- 



835. Coendu pallidum (Waterhouse) . 



Cercolabes pallidus Waterh., Nat. Hist. Mamm., 11, 1848, p. 434. 

 Coendu pallidum Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, F. 

 C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904, p. 401. Zool. Ser. 

 Light-colored Porcupine. 



Type locality. "West Indies." 

 Geogr. Distr. Undetermined. 



836. Coendu rothschildi Thomas. 



Coendou rothschildi Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 7th Ser., x, 



1902, p. 169. 

 Coendu rothschildi Elliot, Mamm. Middle Amer. & W. Indies, 



F. C. M. Pub., IV, Pt. I, 1904, p. 401. Zool. Ser. 



