MILLER AND REHN: NORTH AMERICAN MAMMALS. 175 



1885. Dasyprocta lyuncUita True, Proc. U. S. nat. mas., vii 



(1884), p. 600. 1885. 

 Type locality. — South America. 



Genus AGOUTI Lac^p^de. 



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

 ordres et genres des mammif^res, p. 9 (published as supplement to 

 Discours d'ouvertm-e et de cloture du cours d'histoire naturelle et 

 tableaux methodiques des mammif^res et des oiseaux.) Type. — 

 Mu8 paca Linnaeus. 



The fact that this name antedates CoeJor/emis F. Cuvier (Ann. 

 du mus. d' hist, nat., Paris, x, p. 203, 1807) has been pointed out by 

 Palmer (Proc. biol. soc. Washington, xi, pp. '248, 248, December 

 17, 1897). 



* Agouti paca (Linnaeus). 



1766. \_Mus'] paca Linnaeus, Syst. nat., xii ed., i, p. 81. 

 1799. Agotiti jxica Lacepede, Tableau des divisions, sous- 

 divisions, ordres et genres des mammif^res, p. 9. 

 1885. Coelogernjs paca True, Proc. U. S. nat mus., vii (1884), 



p. 600. 1885. 

 Type locality. — Brazil. 



Suborder Duplicidentata. 



Family OCHOTONIDAE. 



Genus OCHOTONA Link. 



1795, Ochotona Link, Zool. Beytrage, i, pt. ii, p. 74. Included 

 the species /J i/s?7^^^s, alpinus, and ochotona. 



