286 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Fossa Gray, 1864. Fere, Viverride. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 518-519; Cat. Carn., Pachyderm., & Edentate 
Mamm. Brit. Mus., 52, 1869. 
Type: Fossa daubentonii Gray (= Viverra fossa Schreber), from Madagascar. 
Fossa: foussa, native name of this animal. 
Fossor (‘Forster’) LicurENSTEIN, 1844. 2 Glires, Bathyergidee. 
Descriptiones Animalium [edidit Lichtenstein], 31-32, fig., 1844. 
Type: Fossor capensis Forster (=Georychus capensis Illiger), from Cape Colony, 
South Africa. 
Fossor: Lat., a digger. 
Fucotherium Kavr, 1840. Sirenia, Halitheriidee. 
Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, 1840, 675. 
The name seems to-have been suggested and then immediately withdrawn by 
the author. ‘‘Da H.[alicore] Cuviert [from Europe] oder Hipp. [opotamus] 
dubius noch keinen Geschlechts-Namen hat, so nehme ich meine Benennung 
Tang-Thier (Fucotherium), die ich im Begriff war ihm zu geben, zurück." 
(KaAvur.) 
Extinct. 
Fucotherium: @vKos, seaweed; Sypiov, wild beast—from the animal’s supposed 
k od. 
Funambulus Lesson, 1832. Glires, Sciuridze. 
Ill. Zool, pl. 43, with 2 pages text (unnumbered), Sept., 1832; Hist. Nat. 
Mamm. Oiseaux découv. depuis 1788 (Compl. CEuvres Buffon), V, 390-398, 
1836; Nouv. Tableau Régne Animal, Mamm., 108-110, 1842; THomas, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. London, 1897, 933 (type mentioned). 
Farunculus Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., XX, 279, Oct., 1867 (misprint) . 
Type: Funambulus indicus Lesson (=Sciurus palmarum Linnsus, not S. indicus 
Erxleben), from India. 
Funambulus: Lat., rope-dancer, rope-walker. 
Funisciurus (subgenus of Sciurus) TRovESsART, 1880. Glires, Sciuridee. 
Le Naturaliste, II, No. 37, p. 293, Oct. 1, 1880; ibid., No. 40, p. 315, Nov. 15, 
1880; Cat. Mamm., in Bull. Soc. d' Études Sci. d’ Angers, X, 1% fasc., 84, 1880; 
Bull. U.S. Geol. & Geog. Surv. Terr., VI, No. 2, p. 306, Sept. 19, 1881; THomas, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1897, 932-933 (raised to generic rank; type given as 
S. isabella Gray, 1862, from the Cameroon Moantains); W. L. ScrATER, Ann. 
S. Afr. Mus., I, pt. 2, pp. 183-186, Mar., 1899. N 
Type: Sciwrus lemniscatus Leconte, 1857, from West Africa. 
Funisciurus: Lat. funis, rope; -- Sciurus—from its climbing habits. 
Furcifer (subgenus of Cervus) WAGNER, 1844. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervidze. 
Suppl. Schreber's Siugthiere, IV, 384-385, 1844; SUNDEVALL, Ofversigt Vetensk. 
Akad. Handlingar, for 1844, 182-183, 1846; Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 
for 1850, No. COX V, 236, Jan. 24, 1852 (raised to generic rank); Cat. Mamm. 
Brit. Mus., pt. rri, Ungulata, 226-227, 1852. 
Type: Cervus antisiensis Pucheran, from the eastern Cordillera of Bolivia, near 
La Paz, at an altitude of 4,000 meters. 
Name preoccupied by Furcifer Fitzinger, 1843, a genus of Reptilia. Replaced by 
Creagroceros Fitzinger, 1874. 
Furcifer: Lat., yoke bearer—so called from the fureate antlers, which have a 
simple beam and a brow antler. 
Furia F. Cuvier, 1828. Chiroptera, Natalidee. 
Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, XVI, 149-155, pl. 9, figs. 1-5, 1828. 
