Mr. O. Tlioniaa on siwill Mimtnals. 499 



L. — <^n sni'ill Manvnals from ^* Olfo Cerro," North-eaitem 

 litoja, collected by Sr. L. Budin. B/ Oldfield Thom.VjS. 



(Published by permisaiou of the Trustees of the British Museum.) 



ArrER makitiq; tlie colloctioti at CliU'nl)ich i, (' itunirca, of 

 wliicli an account is jjiveii in the 'Annals' for January IDL'J, 

 Sr. Budin travelled wcatwardi some 30 miles, over tlie 

 Oerro de Ambato to " another hill," or ran^^e of hilU, for 

 wliicli ho could find no reco<^ruzed name, hut which, after 

 consultation with the authorities of theGeoirraphical Society, 

 I sup[)0.se to be an unnamed ran;^e runniiif^ southward 

 .from the Cerro Nunorca. Althouf^h Sr. Budin considored 

 himself to be still in Catamarca, and labelled the specimens 

 accordingly, the distance and direction from Chumbichashow 

 that he must have crossed the frontier into Uioja. 



Under these circumstances I have decided to use Sr. Budin's 

 fancy name of " Otro Cerro," as jiut on his labels, hut with 

 correction as to the provi?ice. If more exact definition can 

 be obtained from him it will be published later, but for the 

 present the locality may be stated as 45 kilometres west of 

 Chumbicha, the specimens being taken at an altitude of about 

 3000 metres. 



The collection contains quite a number of interesting 

 species, of which the most striking are the new Ldf/idiuw, the 

 skunks, and tuco-tuco, while the good series of such forms as 

 Phyllotis and Graomi/s have enabled me to make further 

 study of these ditHcidt gronps. 



Like all Sr. Budin's recent specimens, the skins are beauti- 

 fully prepared, and thus together form a very valuable addi- 

 tion to the National Collection. 



Arising out of a suggestion by Sr. Budin, I should liko to 

 propose that certain Spanish and other colloquial terms 

 should be definitely restricted to particular genera, so as to be 

 available for vernacular names. The native words used as 

 names by Mr. Perry Simons, Sr. Budin, and others havo 

 generally been rather vaguely a|)plicd, but might easily be 

 pinned down to special genera, where they would be of great 

 convenience. 



Thus I would take Azara's name of " Ilocicudo " for the 

 species of O.njmycteruH and ** Laucha " for Ile^peromt/s. 

 Then Amlinoiiiys might be " Chozcln.rito," Phyliuis " P.-ri- 

 cote," and Oryzomys " CjUuIo," which eouals " Lf)ng-fHil." 

 Other colloquial names are already well known, but where 

 there are none I shall hope, with Sr. Budin's assistance, to 

 suggest some which might be suitable and convenient. 



