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Mangusta-— Continued. 
Mangusta: Mangutia, East Indian name of the species described as ‘la Mangouste’ 
by Buffon (Hist. Nat., XIII, 150, 1765). From Telugu mangisu, Marathi man- 
gus, mongoose. 
Manis Linnus, 1758. Effodientia, Manid:e. 
Systema Naturze, 10th ed., I, 36, 1758; 12th ed., I, 52-53, 1766. 
Type: Manis pentadactyla Lixn mus, from eastern India. 
Mans: Assumed singular of Lat. manes, ghosts—in allusion to the animal’s noc- 
turnal habits. (Century Dict.) 
Mannodon AmEGHINO, 1898. Allotheria, Plagiaulacid:e. 
Revue Scientifique, LI, No. 1, p. 15, Jan. 7, 1893. 
New name for Tideus Ameghino, 1890, which is said to be preoccupied by 
* Tydzus? (misprint for Tydeus Koch, 1842, a genus of Arachnida). 
Extinct. 
Mannodon: u&vvos, necklace; 660v=d6o0vs, tooth. 
Manteoceras H rcHER, 1895. Ungulata, Perissodactyla, Titanotheriide. 
Am. Naturalist, X XIX, No. 348, p. 1090, Dec., 1895; Hay, Cat. Foss. Vert. N. Am., 
Bull. 179, U. S. Geol. Surv., 632, 1902. 
Type: Telmatotherium vallidens Hatcher, nec Cope (— Palaosyops manteoceras 
Osborn), from the Eocene of Wyoming. Name ''suggested by Wortman 
from the field."  (HaTCHER.) 
Extinct. 
Manteoceras: pravreios, prophetic; Képas, horn—in allusion to ‘the incipient 
fronto-nasal horns.’ 
Manteodon Corr, 1881. Ungulata, Amblypoda, Coryphodontid:ze. 
Am. Naturalist, XVI, for Jan., 1882, 73, Dec. 30, 1881; Palzont. Bull., No. 34, 
166, 1882; Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., X X, 166, 1882; Tert. Vert., 517, 1885 (date 
of publication. ) 
Type: Manteodon subquadratus Cope, from the Eocene (Wasatch beds) of the Big 
Horn basin, Wyoming. 
Extinct. 
Manteodon: wavretos prophetic; 00v — ó00vzc, tooth—in allusion to the upper 
molars, which ‘‘are more like those of Perissodactyles than are those of the 
other coryphodontide.”’ 
Mapurito Oxen, 1816. Ferze, Mustelidee. 
Lehrbuch Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, 2te Abth., 997-999, 1816. 
Type: Viverra mapurito Gmelin, from Pamplona, New Granada. 
Mapurito: Mariputa, a native name used on the Orinoco (GuwrrLA, Hist. Nat. 
Orenoque, III, 240, 1758.) 
Mara D’Orsiany, 1829. Glires, Caviidee. 
Férussae's Bull. Sci. Nat., XIX, 220, Dec., 1829; Lessow, Centurie Zool., Paris, 
113-117, pl. 42, 1830. 
Type: ‘La biscacha à bandeau,' Dolichotis patagonica (Shaw), from Patagonia. 
Mara: the Araucanian name of the animal. 
Marcuinomys Croizer, 1848-52. Glires, Ochotonid:e. 
CnorzET, in Gervais’ Zool. et Paléont Francaises, 1° éd., IT, expl. pl. 46, 1848-52 
(under Titanomys visenoviensis); 2° éd., 50-51, 1859; GirpeL, Süugethiero, 2d 
ed., 457 footnote, 1859. 
Marunsiomys CRoizET, in Pictet's Traité Paléont., 2° éd., I, 258, 1853 (under 
Titanomys); ZrrrE,, Handb. Paleeont., IV, 2te Lief., 552, 1893. 
Type (species not mentioned), from the Miocene of Limagne, Département du 
Puy-de-Dóme, France. ‘‘ Elles (les molaires supérieures) sont de méme forme 
que celles des dépóts miocénes de la Limagne, dont M. Croizet a fait le genre 
Marcuinomys et M. Bravard celui de Platyodon, J'en ignore le nombre," 
(Gervais, l. c., 1848-52.) 
Extinct. 
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