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Tigris fulva (p. 479)=Felis concolor Linn. 



Tigris jaguarete (p. 480; indexed only as jaguarete) =Felis nigra 



Erxleben, 1777, whose name Zimmermann adopted in 1780. 

 Viverra izquepatl (p. 483)= Viverra yulpecula Erxleben, 1777 = 



Viverra memphitis Linn. 

 Viverra chinche (p. 484) = Viverra mephitis Schreber, 1776 (not 



Viverra memphitis Linn.). 



Lutra brasiliensis (p. 485) Lutra brasiliensis Zimmermann, 1780. 

 Mustela voang-shire (p. 487) Mustela galera Erxleben, 1777. 

 Mustela javanica (p. 488) = Mustela javanica Zimmermann, 1780=? 



Herpestes javanica E. Geoff roy, 1812. 

 Mustela quoll (p. 489) = ? 



Ursus albus (p. 489)=Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774. 

 Talpa flava (p. 496)=Talpa europaea, y flavescens Erxleben, 1777 = 



Sorex aquaticus Linn. 

 Talpa caudata (p. 497)=Talpa longicaudata Erxleben, i777=Sorex 



aquaticus Linn. 

 Talpa fusca (p. 497) Talpa fusca Kerr, i792=Sorex aquaticus 



Linn. 



Talpa rubra (p. 497) = Talpa rubra Erxleben, 1777. 

 Sorex brasiliensis (p. 5o8)=Sorex americanus Muller, i776 = Sorex 



brasiliensis Erxleben, i777=Peramys americanus (Muller). 

 Cavia javensis (p. 5o7)=Mus leporinus Linn. 

 Cavia akouchi (p. 50 8)= Cavia acouchy Erxleben, 1777. 

 Sciurus purpureus (p. 5 18)= Sciurus indicus Erxleben, 1777. 

 Sciurus versicolor (p. 5 20)= Sciurus variegatus Erxleben, 1777. 

 Sciurus mexicanus (p. 5 21)= Sciurus mexicanus Erxleben, 1777. 

 Yerboa gigantea (p. 526)=Jaculus giganteus Erxleben, 1777 = 



Macropus giganteus (Zimm.) auct. 

 Moschus meminna (p. 53o)=Moschus meminna Erxleben, 1777 = 



Tragulus meminna (Erxl.) . 



Tragulus surinamensis (p. 530) Moschus americanus Erxleben, 1777. 

 Cervus porcinus (p. 532) ; usually attributed to Zimmermann at 1780. 

 Cervus (vel potius) Capreolus mexicanus (p. 5 3 3)= Cervus mexi- 

 canus Gmelin, 1788. Referred by Zimmermann in 1780 to 



Cervus bezoarticus Linn. 1758, which has in part the same original 



basis (Hernandez) as Cervus mexicanus Gmelin. 1 



1 Cervus bezoarticus Linn, was based on the "Mazama" of Hernandez, or rather on 

 Hernandez's "Cap. XIV. De Mazama, seu Cervus" collectively and not on any par- 

 ticular species of the several treated under this caption, and is thus in such a way 

 composite as to be beyond satisfactory restriction by the process of elimination, and is 

 further complicated by references to South American species of deer mentioned by 

 Marcgrave and Piso. The name is therefore unavailable in nomenclature, and can- 

 not properly be assigned to the South Brazilian and Paraguayan Cervus campestris 

 P. Cuvier, as has recently been done by Lydekker (Deer of All Lands, 1898, p. 287). _ 

 Cervus mexicanus, of both Zimmermann and Gmelin, was based on Pennant's " Mexi- 

 can Deer" (including Pennant's citations) . Pennant's first reference is to the Tuethlal- 

 macama of Hernandez, which Hernandez says was also called Berendo by the natives 

 of Mexico. This animal, under both these names, is commonly and apparently correctly 



