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* Erethizon epixanthum Brandt. 



1^35. Ertthizoii epixantJtus Braxdt, Mem. acad. vm^. des 



sci., St. Petersburg, 6th ser., i, p. 390. 

 1885. Erethizon dorsatus e2)ixanthu$ True, Proc. U. S. nat. 



mns., VII (1884), p. 600. 1885. 

 Type locality. — Xorthwestern America, 



Erethizon epixanthum couesi Mearns. 



1897. Erethizon ejoixcDithus coi^esi Mearns, Proc. U. S. nat. 



mus., XIX, p. 723. July 30, 1897. 

 Type locality. — Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Arizona. 



Erethizon epixanthum my ops Merriam. 



1900. Erethizon t^pixanthas rayops Merriam, Proc. Washing- 

 ton acad. sci., ii, p. 27. March 14, 1900. 

 Type locality. — Portage Bay, ALiska Peninsula, Alaska. 



Genus COENDOU Lacep^de. 



1799. Coendou Lacepede, Tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, 

 ordres et genres des raammif^res, p. 11 (published as supplement 

 to Discours d' ouverture et de cloture du cours d'histoire naturelle 

 et tableaux methodiques des mammiferes et des oiseaux.) Tyj^e. — 

 Hystrix preJiensilis Lixxaeus. 



This name was formally adopted in place of Sinetherus F. Cuvier 

 (M^m. mus. d'hist. nat., Paris, ix, p. 433, 1822) by Trouessart 

 in 1897 (Catal. mamm., pt. iii, p. 621). 



* Coendou mexicanum (Kerr). 



1792. Hystrix mexicana Kerr, Anim. kingd., i, p. 214. 

 1885. Synetheres mexicanus True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vii 



(1884), p. 600. 1885. 

 Type locality. — Mountains of Mexico. 



Coendou pallidum (Waterhouse). 



1848. C'ercolobes 2Joliidu.il ^\ xTERUovs'E, Nat. hist, of mamm., 

 II, p. 434. 



