554 INDEX GENERUM MAMMALIUM. 
Poébrotherium-— Continued. 
Extinct. Based on ‘one side of a cranium . . . the lower extremity of the 
humerus, and the upper extremity of the ulna and the radius of the right leg.’ 
Poebrotheriwum: 26n (zóa), grass; fpóc, to eat; 07piov, wild beast—i. e., an 
herbivorous beast. 
Peecilogale THomas, 1883. Fere, Mustelide. 
Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 5th ser., XI, 370-371, 1 fig. in text, May 1, 1883; W. L. 
ScLATER, Mamm. S. Africa, I, 114-117, figs. 32, 33, 1900. 
Type: Zorilla albinucha Gray, from South Africa. 
Pecilogale: woikidos, *parti-colored;" »«A7, weasel—irom the coloration, which 
resembles that of Zorilla. 
Poecilomys* Picrer, 1842. Glires, Octodontidee. 
Verhandl. Schweiz. Naturf. Gesellsch., X XVII, 1842, 162; WAGNER, Wiegmann’s 
Archiv Naturgesch., 1844, Bd. 2, p. 172. 
Type (species not mentioned), from Bahia, Brazil. ‘Voisin des Dactylomys.’ 
Poecilomys: mwoikiAos, many-colored; 46, mouse. 
Poecilophoca LyprekkeEr, 1891. Fere, Pinnipedia, Phocide. 
LvDEKKER, in Flower & Lydekker's Mamm., Living & Extinct, 605, 1891. 
New name for Leptonyx Gray, 1837, which is preoccupied by Leptonyx Swainson, 
1821, a genus of Birds. Antedated by Leptonychotes Gill, 1872. 
Pecilophoca: zoiíAos, many-colored, mottled; -- PAoca. 
Poephagomys F. Cuvier, 1834. Glires, Octodontide. 
Ann. Sci. Nat., 2° sér., I, Zool., 321-326, pl. 13, 1834. 
Pephagomys 'TRovESssART, Cat. Mamm. Viv. et Foss., Rodentia, 174, 1881 (under 
Spalacopus) . 
Paephagomys 'TRovEssART, Cat. Mamm., new ed., fasc. III, 601, 1897 (under 
Spalacopus) . 
Type: Pephagomys ater Cuvier, from the vicinity of Coquimbo, Chile. 
Pephagomys: mon pay os, grass-eating; 4Oc, mouse—from its herbivorous habits. 
** Le canal intestinal confirmé la nature herbivore tirée des dents." (Cuvier. ) 
Poephagus Gray, 1843. Ungulata, Artiodactyla, Bovidze. 
List Spec. Mamm. Brit. Mus., pp. xxvi, 153, 1845. 
Type: Bos grunniens Linneeus, from Tibet. 
Poephagus: mon pay os, grass-eating—from its herbivorous habits. 
Poescopia (subgenus of Megaptera) Gray, 1864. Cete, Baleenide. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 207, fig. 3; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 3d ser., XIV, 
350, Nov., 1864; Cat. Seals & Whales Brit. Mus., 113, 125-128, fig. 19, 1866 
(raised to generic rank). 
Poeskopia Gervais, Nouv. Archives Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, VII, 88, 1871. 
Species: Balwna lalandii Fischer, from the Cape of Good Hope; and Megaptera 
nove-zelandix Gray, from New Zealand. 
Poescopia: Poeskop, local Dutch name of the Cape Humpback whale. 
Pogonodon Corr, 1880. Fer, Felidee. 
Am. Naturalist, XIV, for Feb., 1880, 142-143, Jan. 31, 1880; Tert. Vert., 981-992, 
fig. 38, 1885. 
Type: Hoplophoneus platycopis Cope, from the Miocene of ‘The Cove’ in the 
John Day River Valley, Oregon. 
Extinct. 
Pogonodon: my wv, beard; 65@v=ddovs, teeth. 
Pogonomys (subg. of Mus) A. Mrtne-Epwarps, 1877. — Glires, Muridee, Murine. 
Comptes Rendus, Paris, LXXXV, 1081, 1877; THomas, Ann. Mus. Civ. Storia 
Nat. Genova, ser. 2a, XVIII, 613, Dec. 14, 1897 (raised to generic rank). 
Type: Mus ( Pogonomys) macrourus A. Milne-Edwards, from New Guinea. 
Pogonomys: zy wv, beard, or tail; 4/ 0c, mouse—in allusion to the long smooth tail. 

*Originally spelled Paecilomys, which is evidently a typographical error. 
