ORYCTOMYS——OSMETECTIS. 485 
Oryctomys-— Continued. 
Under Saccophorus 3 species are given: Mus bursarius Shaw, from the upper 
Mississippi Valley; Ascomys mexicanus Lichtenstein, from eastern Mexico; and 
Oryctomys (Saccophorus) botte Blainville MSS., from California. 
Oryctomys: ópokr59s, digger; “0s, mouse—from its burrowing habits. 
Oryctopus (see Orycteropus). Effodientia, Orycteropodide. 
Orygotherium Meyer, 1838. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Cervide. 
Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, 1838, 413. 
Type: Orygotherium escheri Meyer, from the Miocene of the * Braun-Kohle von 
Kápfnach,' near the Züricher See, Switzerland. 
Extinct. 
Orygotherium: Opvé, Opvyos antelope; 67piov, wild beast. 
Oryx DraiNviLLE, 1816. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Bull. Soc. Philomatique, Paris, May, 1816, 75; H. Smrrn, Griffith’s Cuvier, Anim. 
Kingdom, V, 325, 1827; OaiLBy, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, for 1836, No. xrvrir, 
139, June 27, 1837; SctATER & THomas, Book of Antelopes, IV, pt. xiv, 41-76, 
pls. LXXXI-Lxxxy, text figs. 92-94, May, 1899 (type fixed). 
Onyx GRAY, London Med. Repos., XV, 307, Apr. 1, 1821. 
Species, 5: Antilope oryx ( — Capra. gazella Linnzeus, type), A. leucoryx, A. gazella 
(=A. dammah Cretzschmar*) A. leucophxa, and A. equina from Africa. 
Oryx: Opvé, antelope, from dpvé, pickax—so called from its long, pointed horns. 
Oryx Oxrs, 1816. Cete, Delphinide. 
Lehrbuch Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, 2te Abth., 672-673, 1816; ALLEN, Bull. Am. 
MusteNate (cist. SN: Yo, XoVil 375, Oct. 1151902: 
Apparently a new name for the Narwhal (Monodon Linneeus, 1758, and Ceratodon 
Brisson, 1762). Type: Monodon monoceros Linnzeus, from the Arctic Ocean. 
Oryx was also used by Blainville in the same year (May, 1816) for a genus of 
African antelopes. ‘‘As Blainville's name has long been in current use and was 
published very early in the year 1816, there is no reason to question its tena- 
bility. It probably hasa slight priority over Oryx Oken." (ALLEN, |. ¢., 375.) 
Oryx: Opvé, pickax—the name applied by Strabo and others to the narwhal. 
Oryzomys (subgenus of Hesperomys) BArgp, 1857. Glires, Murid:e, Cricetine. 
Mamm. N. Am.,, pp. xlii, 458, 482-484, 1857; Cours, Century Dict., IV, 4164, 
1890 (raised to generic rank); Merriam, N. Am. Fauna, No. 3, p. 25, Sept. 11, 
1890; SroNE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., for 1898; 480, Jan. 12, 1899 (history 
of species). 2 
Type: Mus palustris Harlan, said to have been collected at Fast Land, near Salem, 
Salem County, New Jersey. 
Oryzomys: Opvta, rice; “0s, mouse—‘rice mouse,’ in allusion to the damage 
which the animal does in the rice fields. 
Oryzorictes GrANpDIDIER, 1870. Insectivora, Tenrecid:e. 
Revue et Mag. de Zool., 2* sér., XXII, 50, Jan., 1870. 
Oryzoryctes TROUESSART, ibid., 3* sér., VII, 275, 1879; Cat. Mamm. Viv. et Foss., 
Insectivora, 57, 1881. 
Type: Oryzorictes hova Grandidier, from Ankaye or Antsianak, Madagascar. 
Oryzorictes: ópvCa, rice; ópokryc, digger. The animals are said to burrow in 
the rice fields, where they do much harm. 
Osmetectis Gray, 1842. Ferve, Viverride. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., X, 260, Dec., 1842; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 569; 
Tuomas, ibid., 1882, 63. 
Osmetictis AGAssiz, Nomenclator Zool., Mamm., Addenda, 7, 1846. 


* See Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1903, 300 
