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SYLVILAGUS BRASILIENSIS INCA Thomas 



Sylvilagus brasiliensis inca Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 11, p. 210, 

 1913. 



Holotype. — Adult female, skin and skull, B. M. No. 4,12.4.15; 

 collected in 1902, by J. Kalimowski, and received m exchange from the 

 Branicki Museum, Warsaw. 



Type locality. — Cadena, an hacienda in Provincia de Quispicanchi, 

 Distrito de Marcapata, Cuzco, Peru; altitude, 890 meters. 



Distribution. — Upper Rio Madre de Dios drainage system, south- 

 eastern Peru. 



Remarks. — A saturate form only slightly paler than Ecuadorian 

 representatives of defilippi. 



Specimens examined. — Two. The type (B.M.); Condamo, Rfo 

 Tambopata, above Astillero, Puno, Peru, 1 (C.N.H.M.). 



SYLVILAGUS BRASILIENSIS BRASILIENSIS (Linnaeus) 



Tapeti Marggraf, Historiae rerum naturalium, book 6, p. 223, first fig. p. 224, 

 Leiden and Amsterdam, 1648. 



Lepus brasiliensis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 58, 1758 (Amer- 

 ica meridional!) .■ — Lesson, Nouveau tableau du r^gne animal, mammif^res, p. 

 99, 1842 (part; not Lepus nanus, Schreber). — Pelzeln, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. 

 Wien, vol. 33, p. 80, 1883 (part; Bahia). — Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 ser. 7, vol. 8, p. 535, 1901 (Rio de Janeiro determined as type locality). 



[Lepus] brasiliensis, Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, p. 146 (genus Sylvi- 

 lagus, type locality redetermined as Pernambuco). — Tate, Amer. Mus. Nov. 

 No. 661, 1933 (Pernambuco, type locality). 



Lepus brasiliensis, Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 11, p. 209, 1913 

 (Pernambuco, type locality; specimens from Lamarao, Bahia, considered 

 typical). 



Lepus braziliensis [sic], Waterhotjse, A natural history of Mammalia, vol. 2, 

 Rodentia, p. 141, 1848 (part; skull "sent from Para"). 



Lepus tapeti Pallas, Novae species quadrupedum e glirium ordine . . ., p. 30, 

 1778 (based on Marggraf's tapiti). — Schreber, Die Saugthiere in Abbildungen, 

 vol. 4, p. 902, 1792. — Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 11, p. 209, 

 footnote, 1913 ("absolute synonym of S. brasiliensis"). 



Lepus nigricaudatus, Lesson (nee Sikes), Nouveau tableau du rfegne animal, 

 mammiferes, p. 100, 1842 (part; Brazil). 



Tapeti brasiliensis, Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 20, p. 224, 1867 

 (genus Tapeti; Pani specimen only). 



S[ylvilagus] brasiliensis, Thomas, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 8, vol. 11, p. 211, 

 1913 (distribution, comparisons). 



Sylvilagus brasiliensis, Moojen, Bol. Museu Nac. Rio de Janeiro, new ser., zool., 

 No. 1, p. 6, 1943 (Pogao, Pernambuco). 



Type specimen. — None, name based primarily on "Cuniculus 

 brasiliensis Tapeti. Marcgr. bras. 223." 



Type locality. — Pernambuco (= Recife), Brazil (fixed by Thomas, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, p. 146). In 1901, Thomas (supra cit.) 

 treated the tapiti of Rio de Janeiro as typical. His subsequent 

 studies of the "Systema Naturae" of Linnaeus, however, caused him 



