32 PATAGONIAN EXPEDITIONS! ZOOLOGY. 



ViscACCiA CHiLENSis (Okcn). 



VizcacJie Azara, Hist. Nat. Quad. Paraguay, II, 1801, 41. Not "La 

 Viscaccia, Lepiis viscacia,'' Molina, 1782; nor Vizcacia viscacica 

 Rehn, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XIII, 1900, 167; nor Vizcacia viscacia 

 Allen, ibid., XIV, 1901, 91. 



\Viscaccia\ Lepiis chilensis Oken, Lehrb. d. Naturg., Ill, ii, 1816, 835. 

 Based on the Vizcache of Azara, as above. 



Viscaccia chilensis Allen, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XV, Oct. 10, 1902, 196 

 (ex Oken). 



Dipus maximus Desmarest (ex Blainville), Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat, XIII, 

 1817, 117; Mamm., II, 1822, 212. Based on a living specimen seen 

 in London, which specimen later became the basis of Lagostonins 

 tricJiodactyliis Brookes. 



Vizcacia jnaxima Palmer, Science (2), VI, 1897, 21 ; Lahille, Congr. 

 Cien. Lat. Amer., Ill, 1899, 192. 



Viscacia maxima Berg, Com. Mus. nac. Buenos Aires, I, 1900, 220. 



Viscaccia americana Schinz, Cuvier's Thierreich, IV, 1825, 429. 



Vizcacia pam par um Schinz, Naturg. und Abbild. Siiug., 1824- 1828, 244 

 [circa 1826). 



Lagostomiis tricJiodactyliis Brookes, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, XVI, 

 1829, 95, pi. ix { = Dipus maximus Desm. 18 17, having been based 

 on the same specimen). — Wagner, Schreber's Saug. Suppl., Ill, 

 1843, 310. — Waterhouse, Mamm., II, 1848, 212. — Hudson, P. Z. S., 

 1872, 822, 833, habits. — Burmeister, Descrip. phys. Rep. Argent, 

 III, 1879, 247. 



Callomys viscacia D'Orbigny & Is. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Ann. des Sci. 

 nat, XXI, 1830, 291, habits and distribution {-= Dipus maximus 

 Desm. ; not Lepus viscacia Molina). 



Lagostomus viscaclia Meyen, Nova Acta Acad. Leopold.-Caes., XVI, 1833 

 (1834), 584. 

 For many years the Argentine Viscache was currently known under 



the specific name tricliodactylus [Lagostomus tricJiodactyliis Brookes, 1829), 



but it was later found that Dipus maximus Desmarest (ex Blainville), 



181 7, referred to the same animal, and received acceptance as its proper 



specific name. But it unfortunately happens that Oken's name cJiilensis 



[Lepus cJiilensis Oken, 18 16) has one year's priority over maximus of 



