CARNIVORA: MUSTELIDAE 745 



1842. Eira Hamilton-Smith, in The naturalist's library (Edit. Jardine), vol. 35 

 (Mammalia, vol. 13, Introduction), p. 201, December 1842. (Type, Eira 

 barbara = Mustela barbara Linnaeus.) 



1843. Galera Gray, List of . . . Mammalia in the . . . British Museum, pp. 

 xx, 67. (Type, Mustela barbara Linnaeus. Not Galera Browne, The civil 

 and natural history of Jamaica, ed. 2, p. 485, 1789. See J. A. Allen, Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 377, Oct. 11, 1902, and vol. 24, pp. 586- 

 589, Sept. 11, 1908: and Hershkovitz, Journ. Mamm., vol. 30, No. 3, p. 295, 

 Aug. 17, 1949.) 



Tayra barbara biologiae (Thomas) * 



1900. Galictis barbara biologiae Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 5, 



p. 146, January 1900. 

 1908. T[ayra] barbara biologiae J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 24, p. 662, Oct. 13, 1908. 

 Type Locality. — Calovevora [ = Calovebora] , Veraguas, Panama. Range. — 

 Panama and Costa Rica. 



Tayra barbara inserta J. A. Allen* 



1908. Tayra barbara inserta J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 24, 

 p. 662, Oct. 13, 1908. 



Type Locality. — Uluse, Matagalpa, Nicaragua. Range. — Most of Nicaragua, 

 south-central Honduras, and possibly north Costa Rica (Goodwin, Bull. Amer. 

 Mus. Nat. Hist, vol. 87, p. 434, Dec. 31, 1946) . 



Tayra barbara senex (Thomas) * 



1884. Galictis barbara True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29), 



p. 609, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1900. Galictis barbara senex Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 5, 



p. 146, January 1900. 

 1912. Tayra barbara senex Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 103, Dec. 31, 



1912. 

 Type Locality. — Hacienda Tortugas, Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Altitude, 

 about 600 feet. Range. — Recorded also from Uaxactun, Peten, Guatemala 

 (Murie, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. 26, p. 21, July 15, 1935), and 

 Silkgrass, British Honduras (Hershkovitz, Fieldiana-Zool., Chicago Nat. Hist 

 Mus. Publ. 670, vol. 31, p. 562, July 10, 1951) . 



Subfamily grisoninae 

 Genus GRISON M Oken 



1816. Grison Oken, Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, pt 3 (Zoologie), 



sect. 2, p. 1000. (Type, Viverra vittata Schreber.) 

 1826. Galictis Bell, Zool. Journ., vol. 2, p. 552, April 1826. (Type, Viverra 



vittata Schreber.) 



96 For use of Grison in place of Galictis Bell, see J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 16, p. 377, Oct. 11, 1902. Names published by Oken in 1816 regarded by Hershkovitz, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 30, No. 3, p. 293, Aug. 17, 1949, as non-Linnaean and not available. 



