219 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Cynomyonax (subgenus of Putorius) Cours, 1877. Ferwe, Mustelidee. 
Fur-bearing Animals, pp. 99, 147-148, 1877. | 
Cyanomyonax TROUESSART, Cat. Mamm. Viv. et Foss., Carnivores, 44, 1885; new 
ed., fasc. 11, 274, 1897.* 
Type: Putorius (Cynomyonax) nigripes Audubon & Bachman, from the Platte 
River, Nebraska. 5 
Cynomyonax: Cynomys (kócv, dog; “0s, mouse) &ra&, kingt—'king of the 
prairie dogs.’ The species lives in prairie-dog towns and feeds upon the ‘dogs.’ 
Cynomys HRarixEsqQvE, 1817. Glires, Sciurid:e. 
Am. Monthly Mag., II, No. 1, p. 45, 1817; AnrEN, Mon. N. Am. Rodentia, 891, 
1877 (type fixed). 
Cynomomus H. L. Osporn, Science, XXIII, No. 577, 103 footnote, Feb. 23, 1894. 
Species: Cynomys socialis Rafinesque (-— Arctomys ludovicianus Ord, type), and 
C.? grisea Rafinesque, from the plains of the Missouri. 
Cynomys: koc, xvvós, dog; “0s, mouse. ** This genus whose name means Dog- 
rat [was based on the Barking squirrel of Lewis and Clarke. The animals] 
. . bark like small dogs and live on roots and grass . . . they often sit on 
their hind legs as dogs."  (RAFINESQUE.) 
Cynonasua (see Cyonasua). Fere, Procyonid:e. 
Cynonycteris PrErERs, 1852. Chiroptera, Pteropodidee. 
Naturw. Reise nach Mossambique, Zool., I, Siugeth., 25, 1852. 
Type: Pteropus collaris Illiger. (Peters! specimen was collected at Inhambane, 
Gasa Land, southeast Africa, S. lat. 24?.) 
Cynonycteris: kar, kvvós, dog; vvkrepíts, bat—probably from its dog-like head. 
Cynopithecus I. Grcrrroy, 1835. Primates, Cercopithecid:e. 
[5 Les Cynopith?ques I. Grorrroy, Bélanger's Voy. Indes Orient., Zool., 66, 1854."' ] 
I. GEorrnov, in Gervais! ‘‘ Résumé Lecons Mammalogie au Muséum, 8°, Paris, 
16, 1835"' (fide Archiv. Muséum, Paris, II, 574—575, 1841); Grmvars, Dict. 
Pittoresque, Hist. Nat., VIII, pt. 1, 90; pt. rr, 428, 1839; Gray, Cat. Monkeys, 
Lemurs & Fruit-eating Bats Brit. Mus., 33, 1870. 
Type: Cynocephalus niger Desmarest, from the Philippine and Molucca Islands. 
"Dans le premier de ces ouvrages, les Cynopithéques ne sont encore consi- 
dérés que comme une simple section des Cynocéphales . . . Dans le second 
ils sont élevés du rang de genre distinct." (Archiv., l. c., 575, footnote.) 
Cynopithecus: koc v, kvvós, dog; zi05«os, ape—trom its dog-like head. 
Cynopterus F. Cuvisr, 1825. Chiroptera, Pteropodid:e. 
Dents Mamm. [Cynoptére, 39-40], 248, 1825; Marscnurg, Fledermiiuse Berliner 
Mus. f. Naturkunde, Lief. r, 71-77, 1899. 
Type: Pteropus marginatus Geoffroy (= Vespertilio sphin:xy Vahl), from Tranquebar, 
India. 
Cynopterus: KU@V, kvrós, dog; zrepóv, wing—' winged dog,’ probably from its 
dog-like head. 
Cynopus I. Grorrroy, 1835. Fer:x, Viverridee. 
I. GEorrRov, in Gervais Résumé Lecons Mammalogie au Muséum de Paris 
pendant l'année 1835 (extrait Écho du Monde Savant, I, 37, 1835); Mag. de 
Zool., 2° sér., I, Mamm. pls. x1-xv1, pp. 4, 5, 1839. 
Type: Herpestes penicillatus from South Africa. A provisional name which equals 
Cynictis Ogilby, 1833. 
Cynopus: cóc, kvvós, dog; zovs, foot—in allusion to the number of toes. 

* This date is wrongly given as 1874 in C. O. Waterhouse's Index Zool., 93, 1902. 
T Coues gives the last element of the compound as grat (or &vaé) king,’ but 
cra£ is merely a contracted vocative of à &vaé *O king. See remarks on the deri- 
vation of Empidonax by A. C. Merriam, Auk, I, 42, Jan., 1884. 
