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* Erethizon epixanthum Brandt. 



1835. Erethizon epixanthus BRANDT, Mem. acad. imp. des 



sci., St. Petersburg, 6th ser., i, p. 390. 

 1885. Erethizon dorsatus epixanthus TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. 



mus., vn (1884), p. 600. 1885. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Northwestern America. 



Erethizon epixanthum couesi Mearns. 



1897. Erethizon epixanthus couesi MEARNS, Proc. U. S. nat. 



mus., xix, p. 723. July 30, 1897. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Arizona. 



Erethizon epixanthum myops Merriam. 



1900. Erethizon epixanthus myops MERRIAM, Proc. Washing- 

 ton acad. sci., IT, p. 27. March 14, 1900. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Portage Bay, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska. 



Genus COENDOU Lac6pede. 



1799. Coendou LACEPEDE, Tableau des divisions, sous-divisions, 

 ordres et genres des mammiferes, p. 11 (published as supplement 

 to Discours d' ouverture et de cldture du cours d'histoire naturelle 

 et tableaux methodiques des mammiferes et des oiseaux.) Type. 

 Hystrix prehensilis LINNAEUS. 



This name was formally adopted in place of Sinetherus F. Cuvier 

 (Mem. mus. d'hist. nat., Paris, ix, p. 433, 1822) by Trouessart 

 in 1897 (Catal. mamra., pt. m, p. 621). 



* Coendou mexicanum (Kerr) . 



1792. Hystrix- mexicana KERR, Anim. kingd., i, p. 214. 

 1885. Synetheres mexicanus TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vn 



(1884), p. 600.- 1885. 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Mountains of Mexico. 



Coendou pallidum (Waterhouse). 



1848. CercolabespcdlidKsWATEmiousE, Xat. hist, of rnamm., 

 n, p. 434. 



