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northern South America, but so far as they can be assigned to definite 
localities all of them apply to the one or more lowland species generally 
recognized under the names gymnotis and savannarum. Among these 
names is one based on very defective material supposed to have been 
received from Bogota, Colombia, which is in a highland region, but 
the material itself offers no evidence to the contrary and all the prob- 
abilities favor the view that the animal was actually killed in the low- 
lands, its horns merely having passed through the highlands in transit 
to the coast whence they were taken to a European museum. 
The status of the various names may be discussed briefly as follows:! 
1833. Cervus gymnotis Wiegmann, Isis, p. 963, 1833. 
This species is usually credited to Colombia, but its type locality is 
the Orinoco region, doubtless the savannas on the lower part of the 
river, for although it is stated in the original description that it came 
from Colombia this is qualified by the information that its former pos- 
sessor had received it via St. Thomas (W. I.) from the Orinoco region. 
For purposes of comparison, specimens from the savannas east of Lake 
Maracaibo, Venezuela, have been used to represent this species but it 
is by no means certain that they are identical with the Orinoco animal 
of which no complete specimens are available. 
1846. Cervus spinosus Gay and Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 3., 
Zool., V, pp. 93-94, 1846. 
This name has priority over savannarum and, so far as can be 
judged from the description, was founded upon the same species. It 
has page priority over Cervus goudotit and is antedated only by C. 
gymnotis. Therefore it should be the recognized name of the Guiana 
deer unless that species proves not to differ from the animal of the 
lower Orinoco region in which case it would become a synonym of 
gymnotis. The essential part of the original description is as follows: 
“Ainsi G. Cuvier fait connaitre, comme se rapportant au Cervus 
virginianus, des bois envoyes de Cayenne par M. Poiteau; mais il est 
evident qu’ils sont d’une autre espéce. Ces bois sont petits, épineux 
a un seul andouiller, etc. Nous signalerons cette espéce a l’attention 
des zoologistes sur le nom de Cervus spinosus.”’ 
1846. Cervus goudotii Gay and Gervais, Ann. Sci. Nat., Ser. 3, 
V, p. 94, 1846. 
The basis of this name was a small single-branched horn, prob- 
ably still preserved in the Paris Museum. It was said to have been 
received from “les regions élevées de la Nouvelle-Grenade.” At 
! For friendly aid in consulting books not contained in Chicago libraries, I am 
indebted to Mr. N. Hollister of the U. S. National Museum. 
