288 MISSING TYPE-SPECIMENS. 



Delphinus lateralis Peale. 



r. S. Explorin*; Kxpedition, YIII, Mammalia and Ornithologv, p. oo, pi. vii, 

 fig. 1. 

 = Prodelphinus (?) lateralis (Peale). See True, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 36, 

 p. (>o. 



Type-locality.— r-dcil^G Ocean, lat. 13^ 58' N., long. 101- 22' W. 



Nothing is known about this specimen. It is not in Peale's list of sperimens, 

 loc. cit., p. 305. Cas.sin remarks, "We find no specimen in the collection of the 

 expedition." (U. S. Explor. Exped., Mamm. and Ornith., 1858, p. 33.) 



Cervus macrotis californicus Caton. 

 Amer. Nat., X, p. 4()4, August, 187G. 

 =Odocoileus hemionus californicus (Caton). See Thompson, Forest and Stream, 

 LI, p. 286, October 8, 1898. 



Txjpe-locality. — Near Gaviota Pass, iO miles up the coast from 

 Santa Barbara, California. 



Caton, p. 468, says, "As soon as the deer reached camp I selected a fair 

 specimen, a buck, which I judged to be four years ol<l, and prepan-d the skin 

 and necessary parts of the skeleton for mounting. This I subsequently sent to 

 the Smithsonian Institution. Professor Baird has expres.sed much interest about 

 it, and assured me that it would be mounted and achU'd to the collection of 

 American quadruj)eds at the Centennial [Ex])osition, Philadelphia, 1876], when 

 tho.<e who take an interest in these studies may examine and compare it with 

 others." Specimen killed ]March 22, 1876, probably. 



An examination of the catalogue for 1875-76 shows the specimen to be H liJ* 

 catalogued in the spring of 1876. Nothing further is known of it. 



Cervus lewisii Peale. 



U. S. Exploring P^xpedition, VIII, Mammalia and Ornithology, p. 30, 1848. 

 =Odocoileus columbianus ( Richardson) . See Trouessart, Catalogus Mammalium, 

 p. 894, 1897. 



There should be two cotjpes, one from Feather River, upper 

 California, the other from San Francisco Bay. 



Nothing is known of their whereabouts; not even numbers are 

 known. 



Lepus audubonii Baird. 



Mammals of North America, p. 608, pis. xiii (animal) and lviii (skull). 

 \\\\. Skin and skull, both lost. San Francisco, California. Received 

 from Lieut. R. S. Williamson; collected b}' Dr. J. S. Newberry. 

 Catalogued December 31, 185.5. 



No type was designated in the original description, and in the description 

 itself there is nothing to show that Baird had in mind any i)articular one of the 

 five specimens coming from three separated localities. (The specimens labeled 

 "Presidio" probably came from ^Monterey, as is seen by reading the original 

 labels and the entry in the catalogue. On pi. xiii Baird figures the entire animal, 

 Init does not state which specimen; however, on i)l. i.viii a skull is figured and 

 referred to by munl)er, 2045. As this specimen seems to be mentioned more 

 particularly than any other specimen, it seems well to take it as the type. The 

 tyjK'-locality is thus restricted to San Francisco, California, as is done by Miller 

 and Rehn. (Proc. Bost. Soc Nat. Hist., XXX, p. 185, December, 1901.) 



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