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Aulocetus—Continued. 
Type: Balanodon linzianum Meyer, from the Miocene in the vicinity of Linz, 
upper Austria. 
Extinct. 
Aulocetus: avAds, tube, groove; x?jroc, whale—*'à cause du sillon cranien.”’ 
Austritragus Hrups, 1898. . Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovid:e. 
Mém. Hist. Nat. Empire Chinois, IV, pt. r, 14, 1898. 
Based on ‘the capricorns of Sumatra’ (Nemorhedus sumatrensis). 
Austritragus: Lat. auster, south; tragus, goat—from the animal’s tropical habitat. 
Avahi JourpaAn, 1834. Primates, Lemurid:e. 
*T?Institut, IT, 231, 1834" (fide Mrvanr, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, 151). 
‘“Avahis 1. Geoffroy, Lecons Mamm., 1835" (fide Mivarrt, l. c.); DAnrBow, Zool. 
Studier, I, Tredje Hiiftet, 199, 202-208, 1857; ‘‘ MrLNE-EpwARDs & GRANDIDIER, 
Hist. Nat. Madagascar, Mamm., I, 320." 
Type: Lemurlaniger Gmelin, from Madagascar. (See Microrhynchus Jourdan, also 
published in 1854. ) 
Avahi: Name of the woolly lemur among the Anatala tribe of Madagascar. 
Axis (subgenus of Cervus) H. Smiru, 1827. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidze. 
Griffith's Cuvier, Anim. Kingdom, V, 312-313, 1827; Gray, List. Spec. Mamm. 
Brit. Mus., pp. xxvii, 178, 1843 (raised to generic rank). 
Species: Cervus axis (type), and C. porcinus, from India. 
Avis: ‘‘Lat. axis (Pliny), perhaps of East Indian origin." (Century Dict.) 
Axodon (see Akodon ). Glires, Muridee, Cricetinz. 
Aye-aye Lacrrrpr, 1799. Primates, Daubentoniidze. 
Tabl. Mamm., 6, 1799; Nouv. Tableau Méth., Mamm., in Mém. l'Institut, Paris, 
III, 491, 1801. 
Type: Aye-aye madagascariensis (=Sciurus madagascariensis Gmelin), from Mada- 
gascar. Name antedated by Daubentonia Geoffroy, 1795. 
Aye-aye: ** Malagasy aiay, probably of imitative origin" (Century Diet.).  Aye- 
aye means ‘look,’ but according to Sonnerat it is a cry of surprise of the 
inhabitants of Madagascar (BrEppArD, Mamm., pp. 538, 549, 1902). 
Azema Gray, 1870. Primates, Lemuride. 
Cat. Monkeys, Lemurs & Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus., 132, 134, 1870. 
Type: Cheirogaleus smithii Gray, from Madagascar. 
Azema: Probably a coined name. 
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Babirussa Friscn, 1775. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Suidee. 
Das Natur-System vierfiiss. Thiere, in Tabellen, 3, Tab. Gen., 1775; (‘Guror- 
FroY’) RarrxEsQUE, Analyse de la Nature, 56, 1815; Lesson, Man. Mamm., 
337-338, 1827. 
Babiroussus Gray, London Med. Repos., XV, 306, April 1, 1821. 
Babiroussa F. Cuvier, Dents des Mamm., 257, 1825. 
Babyrussa Burnett, Quart. Journ. Sci., Lit. & Art, XXVIII, for Oct.—Dec., 1829, 
352, 1830. 
Babirusa Lesson, Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 162, 1842. 
Type: Sus babyrussa Linneeus, from Celebes. 
Babirussa: Malay, babi, hog; rusa, deer—‘hog deer’ or more properly ‘deer hog,’ 
in allusion to the abnormally developed tusks, which have been likened by 
the Malays to those of a deer. (LypEKKer, Royal Nat. Hist., II, 436, 1894.) 
Bachitherium Firnuor, 1882. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Tragulide. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, XCIV, No. 3, pp. 138-139, séance du 16 Jan., 1882. 
Pachitherium Frrzmor, Le Naturaliste, IV, No. 6, p. 42, Mar. 15, 1882. 
Species, 3: Bachitherium insigne Filhol, B. medium Filhol, and B. minus Filhol, all 
from the Phosphorites of Quercy, France. 
