SOUTH-AMERICAN MAMMALS. 223 



NOTE XXVIII. 

 ON THREE RARE SOUTH-AMERICAN MAMMALS. 



BY 



Dr. P. A. JENTINK. 



May 1887. 



(Plate 3). 



Some weeks ago I procured a small collection of Mam- 

 mals and Birds collected by Mr. J. H. (I have not been 

 happy enough to investigate the name) in the years 1880 

 and 1881. The specimens labeled 1880 are from Nauta; 

 those with the label 1881 are from Samiria. Nauta is a 

 locality in North-Eastern-Peru on the Marafion-River , vis- 

 a-vis the mouth of the Ucayali-River. Samiria is a name 

 quite new to me and not on the maps, but I think that 

 this locality is to be found in the neighborhood of Nauta and 

 is perhaps the same as Chambira on the maps : and if this 

 supposition is right then it is a locality in Ecuador , on the 

 River of the same name, a branch of the Maraiïon. That 

 it is not without interest to know the exact situation of 

 the latter locality will be clear if I say that just from Samiria 

 (Chambira?) are two Mammals in the above quoted col- 

 lection , which belong to two of the most beautiful and 

 at the same time of the rarest among the South- American 

 species of Mammals. 



Notes from the Leyden IVIuseum, Vol. IX. 



