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in the matter must admit that his use of it fulfills the nomencla- 

 tural requirements of the case. It therefore seems as neces- 

 sary to accept Dama in place of Odocoileus as it does to reject 

 americanus Erxleben for the specific name of the Virginia 

 Deer, which should evidently stand as Dama virginiana Zim- 

 mermann. 



Taking as a basis Miller and Rehn's recent list of the 

 Odocoileus group (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXX, 

 No. i, pp. 14-17, Dec., 1901), and including recent additions, 

 the North American forms of the genus, under the above 

 and a few other changes of nomenclature, will stand (adopting 

 an alphabetic sequence) as follows: 

 i. Dama acapulcensis (C atari). 15. Dama leucura (Doug.). 



2. 

 3- 

 4- 



6. 



7- 

 8. 



9- 

 10. 

 1 1. 



12. 



!3- 

 14. 



cerrosensis (Merriam) . 

 columbiana (Rich.), 

 c. schaphiotus (Merr.). 

 c. sitkensis (Merr). 

 costaricensis (Miller) . 

 couesi (C. and Y). 

 crooki (M earns). 

 hemionus (Raf). 

 h. californica (Colon). 

 h. cana (Merr). 

 h. eremica (Mearns). 

 h. peninsulae (Lyd.) . 

 h. virgulta (Hallock) . 



1 6. lichtensteini, nom. 



nov. 1 



17. nelsoni (Merr.). 



1 8. " thoraasi (Merr.). 



19. tolteca (Sauss.). 



20. truei (Merr.). 



2 1 . virginiana Zimm. 



22. v. borealis (Miller). 



23. " v. louisianae (G. M. 



Allen). 



24. " v. macroura (Raf). 



25. " v. osceola (Bangs). 



26. " v. texensis (Mearns). 



In this connection the use of the name Capreolus, in a 

 generic sense, for Cervus meocicanus Gmelin et auct., also re- 

 quires mention, as there is no doubt of its pertinence to 

 the Odocoileus group. As, however, it occurs one page 

 later than Dama in Zimmermann's work, it must give 

 place to Dama, although suggested as a preferable substitute 

 for Cervus for Pennant's Mexican Deer. It is also untenable 

 on account of its exclusive relation to an unidentifiable and 

 therefore invalid species. (See footnote to p. 16.) 



PlLORIS, OR THE RAT MUSQUE OF ROCHEFORT. 



As noted at the beginning of this article, Mr. Forsyth 

 Major has ascribed the name "Castor piloris" to Zimmer- 



1 = Cervus mexicanus Liechtenstein, but not Cervus mexicanus of Zimmermann nor 

 Gmelin. Liechtenstein' s name being preoccupied, his Cervus mexicanus may be called 

 Dama lichtensteini. 



