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Mr. Miller cites as an example, "3. Hyena'' under Canis, but 

 omits to note that the generic name Hycena of authors, as 

 also the species Hycena striata, dates from this same work of 

 Zimmermann's (cf. Trouessart, Cat. Mamm., pp. 317 and 319; 

 W. L. Sclater, Mamm. S. Afr., I, 1900, 83, etc.). 1 Vulpes is a 

 case parallel to that of Hyccna? but Vulpes Zimmermann = 

 Vulpes Brisson. Jerboa would be tenable except that, in un- 

 certainty as to date between Zimmermann and Erxleben, it 

 seems best to retain its exact equivalent Jaculus of Erxleben. 

 In other cases the examples cited by Mr. Miller are not to be 

 considered as parallel to the case of Dama. 



III. THE GENERIC AND SPECIFIC NAMES OF THE PECCARIES. 



In 1897, Dr. T. S. Palmer called attention (Proc. Biol. Soc. 

 Washington, XI, p. 174) to the priority of the name Tayassu 

 of Fischer (1814) for the Peccaries, this name antedating 

 Dicotyles G. Cuvier (1817) by three years. As Dr. Palmer 

 says, Fischer recognized two species in due form under the 

 names Tayassu pecari and T. patira, of which Fischer gave 

 brief diagnoses. His diagnosis of T. pecari shows that the 

 species was the White-lipped Peccary, Sus albirostris Illiger, 

 1815, although he cited "Sus tajassu Lin. Gmel. Syst. nat. 

 in, n. 6," * which is not, however, Sus tajassu Linn. 1758. 

 His second species, T. patira, is the Collared Peccary, Sus 

 patira Sonnini (Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XVII, 1803, p. 156 

 = Sus tajassu Linn. 1758); thus both species of Peccary at 

 that time known were included in his genus Tayassu and 

 identifiably diagnosed. 



In 1817 Fischer had reached the conclusion that 'bar- 



1 Hycena Zimmermann, Spec. Zool. Geogr. 1777, 365, 470. 



Hycena striata Zimmermann, Spec. Zool. Geogr. 1777, 366 = Canis hycena Linn. Syst. 

 Nat. 1758, 40. 



Hycena maculata Zimmermann, Spec. Zool. Geogr. 1777, 470 Canis crocuta Erx- 

 leben, Syst. Reg. An. 1777, 578. 



3 Vulpes Zimmermann, Spec. Zool. Geogr. 1777, 175, 470. At page 470 three 'spe- 

 cies,' or different kinds, are enumerated under Vulpes. 



3 This reference is erroneous, occurring in neither the loth nor 1 2th editions of Linnaeus, 

 nor in Gmelin. In other cases "Lin. Gmel." is found to refer to Gmelin and not to 

 Linnaeus. Gmelin' s Sus tajassu is composite, and the characters he gives and most of 

 his citations apply about equally to both species. Hence the reference "Sus tajassu 

 Lin. Gmel." does not fix a type. Azara (1801) was the first naturalist, as said by Son- 

 nini, to distinguish and describe the two animals. Sonnini also had personal experience 

 with both in the interior of Guiana, and in 1803 confirmed Azara' s discrimination of 

 the two forms. Sonnini also comments at length on the errors of previous authors. 

 See the words "PATIRA (Sus patira)," and "PECARI (Sus tajassu Linn.)," in Nouv. 

 Diet, d' Hist. Nat., XVII, 1803, pp. 156, 157, and 180-185. 



