518 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Payerna (subgenus) BLAINvILLE, 1840. Ferze, Viverridz. 
Ostéog. Mamm. Récents et Foss., II, fasc. vir, Carnassiers, p. 80, 1840. 
Nomen nudum. ‘‘Les Paradoxures proprement dits et les sections nommées 
Ambliodon, Payerna, Hémigale, Cynogale. Prionodonte, sont toutes de P Asie 
continentale ou insulaire.”’ 
Pecari (subg. of Sus) RercHENBACH, 18385. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Tayassuidee. 
Bildergallerie der Thierwelt, oder Abbildungen des Interessantesten aus dem 
Thierreiche, 2te Aufl., Heft VI, 1, Taf. xx1 fig. 2, 1835; Liars, Climats, Géol., 
Faune et Géog. Botanique Brésil, 401, 1872. 
Type: Sus torquatus (Cuvier), from tropical America. Liais simply suggests Pecari 
asa new name for Dicotyles as follows: ‘‘Le nom de Dicotyles reposant ainsi sur 
une comparaison vulgaire inacceptable scientifiquement, me semble done trés- 
vicieux et je ne vols pas pourquoi on ne prendrait pas simplement pour nom 
générique le nom tupi de Pecart.”’ 
Pecari: Brazilian (Tupi) pé, path; caa, wood; ri, much, many—4. e., an animal 
which makes many paths through the woods. (Liars. ) 
Pectinator Biyrn, 1856. Glires, Octodontidee. 
Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, X XIV, for 1855, 294—296, 1856. 
Type: Pectinator spekei Blyth, from the region between Goree Bunder and Wady 
Nogal, East Africa. 
Pectinator: Lat., a comber—in allusion to the bristles on the hind feet resembling 
those of Ctenodactylus. 
Pecus Oxen, 1816. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidee. 
Lehrbuch Naturgesch., 3ter Theil, 2te Abth., 711-712, 1816. 
Includes 5 groups or subgenera: Bos, Ovis, Capra, Cemas, and Orasius. 
Pecus: Lat., cattle. 
Pedetes ILLIGER, 1811. Glires, Pedetidze. 
Prodromus Syst. Mamm. et Avium, 81-82, 1811. 
Pedestes GRAY, List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., 150, 1843 (in synonymy). 
Type: Dipus cafer Gmelin ( — Mus cafer Pallas), from the Cape of Good Hope. 
Pedetes: z1)017)7 6, a leaper (from 775d, to leap)—from its mode of progression, 
which is similar to that of a kangaroo. 
Pediomys Marsn, 1889. Marsupialia, Cimolestid:e. 
Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 3d ser.; X XXVIII, 89, pl. rv figs. 23-25, July, 1889. 
Type: Pediomys elegans Marsh, from the Cretaceous (Laramie) of Wyoming. 
Z;xtinct. Based on ‘an upper molar, apparently the last on the right side.’ 
Pediomys: medtov, plain; 4c, mouse—in allusion to the type locality. 
Pediotragus Firzincrr, 1860. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidze. 
Sitzungsber. Math.-Nat. Cl. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, XLII, 396, 1860; LIX, Abth. 
I, 163, Feb., 1869; ScLATER & THomas, Book of Antelopes, II, pt. v, 33, Jan., 
1896 (in synonymy ). 
Type: Antilope tragulus Forster (=A. campestris Thunberg), from South Africa. 
Pediotragus: medior, plain; tadyos, goat—i. e., a plains antelope. 
Pedomys (subgenus of Arvicola) Bargp, 1857. Glires, Murid:e, Microtin:e. 
Mamm. N. Am., 517, 1857; MinnkR, N. Am. Fauna, No. 12, pp. 16, 55-56, fig. 
29, 1896. 
Type: Arvicola austerus Le Conte, from Racine, Wisconsin. 
Pedomys: z£8ov, ground, earth; 4/0c, mouse—from its terrestrial habits. 
Pedotherium (see Pzedotherium ). Ungulata, Typotheria, Hegetotheriid:e. 
Pehuenia Rorn, 1901. Ungulata, Ancylopoda, Homalodontotheriid:e. 
Revista Mus. La Plata, X, 254, Oct., 1901 (sep. p. 6). 
