APRIL, 1914. Four New MAMMALS FROM VENEZUELA—OSGOOD. 139 
the most, this indefinite statement of locality could only mean that 
the specimen was secured from a native or bought in a shop in the 
interior of Colombia, probably in Bogota. Deer are exceedingly rare 
and difficult to obtain in the mountains near Bogota and it is even 
doubtful whether any except small brockets (Mazama) occur there; 
whereas they are fairly common in the savannas directly east of Bogota 
along the upper Meta River on Orinoco drainage. A trade route be- 
tween this region and Bogota has been open for many years and the 
skins or parts of the lowland animals as well as living animals for pets 
are constantly carried to Bogota for sale.! It is highly probable, 
therefore, that the type of Cervus goudotit came from the upper Orinoco 
region east of Bogota, Colombia. So far as known, the deer of this 
region do not differ from those of the lower Orinoco. The name gou- 
dotit may therefore be regarded as a synonym of gymnotts. 
1848. Cervus savannarum Cabanis and Schomburgk, Reisen in 
Brit. Guiana, III, p. 785, 1848. 
Although this name is usually regarded as representing a valid form 
differing from gymnotis at least in certain external characters, it is 
doubtful if specimens typically representing the two ever have been 
compared. Two imperfect skulls in the Field Museum obtained by 
M. P. Anderson and R. H. Becker at Boa Vista, Rio Branco, Brazil, 
may be considered practically as topotypes of savannarum, for Fort 
San Joaquim (very near Boa Vista) was Schomburgk’s headquarters 
for some time and he has especially mentioned the abundance of deer 
in that vicinity. 
Unfortunately, it seems necessary that the name savannarum be 
superseded by spinosus which has two years’ prioritv. 
1879. Gymnotis wiegmanni Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. K. Ak. Wiss. 
Wien, LXXVIII, p. 344, 1870. 
A renaming of Cervus gymnotts Wiegmann, of which, therefore, it is 
an absolute synonym. 
1879. Cervus columbicus Fitzinger, Sitzungsber. K. Ak. Wiss. 
Wien, LXXIX, p. 66, 1870. 
Based on a skull and horns described and figured but not named by 
Pucheran (Arch. du Mus., VI, p. 335, pl. 23, fig. 1, 1852). These were 
obtained from Bogota, Colombia, by the French traveler and naturalist 
Roulin. “Bogota” is of course a generalized locality covering the 
1 Dr. F. M. Chapman, who has lately done some thorough ornithological work 
in the Bogota region, assures me that at present the skins of spotted cats, jaguars, 
pumas, etc., and certain live birds and mammals offered for sale in Bogota are largely 
from the eastern savanna or llano region. 
