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APPENDIX. 



The following names have been applied to members of recently 

 revised genera since the publication of True's list, but are now re- 

 garded as untenable. 



Cariacus clavatus True. 1 



1888. Cariacus clavatus TRUE, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., xi, p. 



417. 



Preoccupied by Cervus clavatus HAMILTON SMITH (Griffith's 

 Cuvier, Animal kingdom, v, p. 315, 1827) and replaced by Odocoileus 

 truei MERRIAM (p. 17). 



Sciurus wagneri Allen. 



1898. Sciurus wagneri ALLEN, Bull. Amer. mus. nat. hist., x, 



p. 453. November 10, 1898. 



A name proposed as a substitute for the preoccupied S. albipes 

 WAGNER and S. varius WAGNER, but regarded by Nelson (Proc. 

 Washington acad. sci., i, p. 46, May 9, 1899) as a synonym of S. 

 poliopus (p. 26). 



Sciurus poliopus quercinus Nelson. 



1898. Sciurus poliopus quercinus NELSON, Proc. biol. soc. 



Washington, xn, p. 150. June 30, 1898. 



Preoccupied by /Sciurus quercinus ERXLEBEN (Syst. regni anim., 

 i, p. 432, 1777) and replaced by S. poliopus hernandezi NELSON (p. 

 26). 



Sciurus fossor anthonyi Mearns. 



1897. Sciurus fossor anthonyi MEARNS, Preliminary diagnoses 

 of new mammals of the genera Sciurus, Castor, Neotoma, and 

 Sigmodon, from the Mexican border of the United States, 

 p. 1. March 5, 1897. (Reprint: Proc. U. S. nat. mus., xx, 

 p. 501. January 19, 1898.) 

 TYPE LOCALITY. Campbell's Ranch, Laguna, San Diego 



County, California. 



Regarded by Nelson (Proc. Washington acad. sci., i, p. 83, May 

 9, 1898) as identical with S. griseus (p. 30). 



1 This name was inadvertently omitted on page 17, where it properly belongs. 



