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Genus DOLICHOTIS Desmarest. 



Dolichotis Desmarest, Journ. Phys., LXXXVIII, 1819, 205 ; Mamm., II, 

 1822, 359, 360, footnote. Type Dasyprocta patacJionica Desmarest 

 = Cavia patachonica Shaw=: Cavia mageUanica Kerr (1792). 



Mara Lesson, Cent. Zool., 1832, 113. Type, Cavia patacJionica Shaw. 



Dolichotis magellanica (Kerr). 



Hare Narborough, Voyage to Magellan, 1694, 33 ; also 171 1, 33. 

 Patagonian Cavy Pennant, Hist. Quad., II, 1781, 363, pi. xxxix ; 2d ed., 



II, 1793, 91, pi. xci. Based on Narborough's account and specimens. 



Port Desire, Patagonia. 

 Cavia magellanica Kerr, An. King, 1792, No. 454. 

 Dolichotis magellanica Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), IV, 1879, 



397. Revival of Kerr's name. 

 Mara magellanica Lesson, Cent. Zool., 1832, 113, pi. xlii. [Mara pata- 



gonica on the plate.) 

 Cavia patachonica Shaw, Gen. Zool., II, i, 1801, 226, pi. clxv. From 



Pennant and Narborough ; plate from a specimen in Leverian Mu- 

 seum, brought by Narborough from Patagonia. — Waterhouse, Zool. 



Voy. Beagle, Mamm., II, 1839, 89. 

 Chloromys patagonicus Desmoulins, Diet, class. d'Hist. Nat., IV, 1823, 



47. — Lesson, Man. de Mamm., 1827, 301. 

 Mara patagonica Lesson, Cent. Zool., 1830, pi. xlii. 

 Dasyprocta patachonica Desmarest, Journ. de Phys., LXXXVIII, 1819, 



205 ; Mamm., pt. ii, 1822, 358. 

 Dolichotis patachonica Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mamm., II, 1848, 158, 



pi. iii, fig. I, animal, pi. iv, fig. i, skull. — Cassin, U. S. Expl. Exp. 



(Wilkes), Mamm. and Orn., 1858, 22, Patagonia. 

 Dasyprocta patagonium Schinz, Cuvier's Thierreich, IV, 1825, 324. 

 Chloromys patagonica Lesson, Mamm., 1827, 301. 

 Dolichotis patagonica Wagner, Schreber's Saug. Suppl., IV, 1844, 66. — 



Burmeister, Reise durch die La Plata-Staaten, II, 422, habits, external 



characters and anatomy; Desc. phys. Rep. Argent, III, 1879, 260. 



— Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., ii, 1897, ^\^- — Prichard, P. Z. S., 1902, 



I, 277; Through Heart of Patagonia, 1902, 67, 257, 258 (habits 



and distribution). 



