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Mynnccophaya striata, SHAW, Gen. Zool., i, 1800, 51 ( Buffoii's " Tamandua " as above). 



u Myrmeoophctga, KRUSENSTERN, Voy. autour du Monde." 



Myrmecophaga annulata, DESMAREST, Mam., 1822, 374(=Myrmecopliaga t Krusenstern, 

 as above). 



Tamandua, annulated var. ? Myrmecopliaga tetradactyla, L. T, GRIFFITH'S Cuvier's Auim. 

 Kingd., iii, 1827, 305, pi. (original figure from a stuffed specimen*). 



Nasua socialis, MAXIMILIAN, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., ii, 1826, 283. SCHINZ, Nat. u. Abbild. 

 d. Siiugt., 1826, 110, pi. xxxiii (from nature). VONTSCHUDI, Fauna Peruaua, 

 1844-46, 98. BURMEISTER, Syst. Uebers. der Thiere Brasil., 1854, i, 120 (exclud- 

 ing from synonymy FwerrawKca,Linn.). GIEBEL, Siiugeth., 1855, 750 (in part 

 only; includes Viverranasua, V. narica, Linn., V. guasje, Gmel., Nasuarufa and 

 fusca, Desm., N. leucorliynchus, von Tschudi, etc.). WEINLAND, Zoologisclie 

 Garten, 1860, 61. HENSEL, Zoologisclie Garten, 1869, 290 (habits, the chase, 

 individual and climatic variations, etc.); Abhandl. Konig. Akad. Wissens. 

 Berlin, 1872, (1873), 63. 



Nasua socialis var. rufa, FISCHER, Synop. Mam., 1329, 148. 



Nasua socialis var. rufa aut fulva, WAGNER, Suppl. Schreber's Siiugth., ii, 1841, 165. 



Nasua solitaria, MAXIMILIAN, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., ii, 1826, 292 (old males). FISCHER, 

 Synop. Mam., 1829, 149. VON TSCHUDI, Fauna Peruana, 1844-46, 99. BUR- 

 MEISTER, System. Uebers. der Thiere Bras., 1854, i, 121. GIEBEL, Saugeth., 

 1855, 751. (These notices are all of them compiled, and are based on Maxi- 

 milian's description of the single original specimen, namely, an old male of 

 the common Coati. ) SCHMIDT, Zoologisclie Garten, Jahrg. iii, No. 2, Feb. 

 1862, 32. 



Nasua vittata, VON TSCHUDI, Fauna Peruana, 1844-46, 101. 



Nasua montana, VON TSCHUDI, Fauna Peruana, 1844-46, 102, pi. v. 



Nasua olivacea, GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864,703; Cat. Carn., Pachy.,aud Edent. 

 Mam. Brit. Mus., 1869, 241. 



Nasua dorsalis, GRAY, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 169, pi. xvii ; Cat. Cam., Pachy., and 

 Edent. Mam. Brit. Mus. , 1869, 240. 



"Le Coati Mondi, PERRAULT, Anim. , ii [about 1668], 15, pi. xxxvi." See "M6m. Acad. 

 Eoy. des Sci., dep. 1666-1699," probably tome ii. 



Brazilian Weesel, PENNANT, Syn. Quad., 1771, 229; Hist. Quad., ii, 1793, 61 (in part 

 only). 



Cuatl, AZARA, Hist. Nat. Quad. Paraguay, i, 1802, 293. 



Coati roux, male, F. CUVIER, Hist. Nat. des Mam., livr. i, 1818. 



Coati brun,femelle, F. CUVIER, Hist. Nat. des Mam., livr. iv, 1819. 



*Dr. Gray says (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 701), " Mr. Turner (P. Z. S., 1851, 

 p. 218) professes to have rediscovered the fact (though it is stated in the ' Catalogue of 

 the Mammalia in the British Musium,' p. 74, 1843), that Krusenstem's M. annulata is only 

 a Coati-Mondi; but he is puzzled to explain the figure in Griffith's 'Animal Kingdom/ 

 This figure is engraved from a drawing of Major Hamilton Smith's, no doubt copied from, 

 Erusenstern's figure, but altered and improved, as was his habit when making his very 

 large collection of drawings a bad habit, that has rendered them of comparatively 

 small value for scientific purposes, as it is impossible to determine whether they are 

 from a figure or a specimen." 



In reference to the line I have italicised in the above passage, I quote the follow- 

 ing from the text (1. c., pp. 305, 306) accompanying Hamilton Smith's figure: "The 

 figure we have engraved, under the title of the Tamandua annulated variety ? seems 

 likely to be the same as that indicated by the circumnavigator [Krusenstern], differing 

 principally in the absence of the dark spot round the eye. This was also drawn [like 

 the plate preceding the one in question] from a stuffed specimen, and is subject to the 

 same observations as to the position of all the feet as that last mentioned ["Ursine 

 Anteater"]." 



