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Sciurus. — Used in the manuscript of W. Ellis, 1780, on the third 

 voyage of Captain Cook. Drawing and manuscript in the library of 

 the British Museum, Natural History. This manuscript name was 

 published as Sciurus dissimilis in 18Q0, in the Annals and Magazine 

 of Natural History, third series, vol. 5, p. 71, in an article by Gray. 



Sorex. — Employed by Diard in the account of the first described 

 treeshrew, Sorex glis, in the Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register, 

 vol. 10, November, 1820, p. 478, also used again by Diard and 

 Duvaucel. (Asiat. Res., vol. 14, 1822, p. 472, pi. 9. This volume 

 was received in London, at the Geological Society, January 10, 1823, 

 and hence was probably published in the third quarter of 1822. 

 Personal communication from C. D. Sherborn.) A careful examina- 

 tion of these works shows that glis was described as a new species of 

 the genus Sorex. It was not anyone's intention to make a new genus 

 called Sorexglis, as certain writers have thought. Palmer in North 

 American Fauna, No. 23, page 636, is of the same opinion that Sorex 

 glis was used as a genus and a species, and not as a single name, 

 and so was Horsfield.^ Desmarest, however, considered it as a 

 generic term and published it as such, Sorexglis, and also emended it 

 to Glisorex, which was still further emended by Scudder Glirisorex and 

 by Giebel as Glisosorex. 



Sorexglis. — First used by Geoffroy and Cuvier (Hist. Nat. Manun., 

 vol. 3, liv, 35, December, 1821, p. 1) as a compound word Sorex-Glis 

 as a generic designation of treeshrews. No citation of either Raffles 

 or Diard is given, but both are mentioned, and the name is evidently 

 taken from the latter's Sorex glis. They discuss the inappropriate- 

 ness of using barbarous names like Twpaia. It is interesting to note 

 that Twpaia appeared in May and Sorexglis in December of the same 

 year, 1821. Geoffroy and Cuvier included in their genus the species 

 now known as javanica srnd ferimginea. 



Desmarest was next to use the term, in his Mammalogie, in 1822, 

 in a footnote only, preferring in the text to use the term Twpaia. 



Sorex-glis is also mentioned by Cuvier in Dents des Mammiferes in 

 1825, although Cladohates is adopted as the generic term. 



Tapaia. — An accidental renaming of Tupaia by J. E. Gray (Ann. 

 Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 5, 1860, p. 71). The speUing occurs as 

 Tapaia in the title, in the body of the article, and in the index. 

 Tupaia does not appear in Gray's article, or elsewhere in the volume. 



Tupaia. — The earliest generic name for the treeshrews as such pro- 

 posed by Raffles in May, 1821 (Trans. linn. Sec. London, vol. 13, 

 1822, p. 256, May, 182P). It contained two species, ferruginea and 

 tana. In the present paper tana is made the type of a new genus. 

 Tupaia is the name adopted by most authors, although it was rejected 



1 Catalogue of the Mammalia in the Museum of the Hon. East- India Company, 1851, p. 130. 

 *See Horsfleld, Zool. Res. Java, 1824, p. 2 of text of Tapiriis malayanus, 



