138 MR. OLDFIELD THOMAS ON THK MAMMALS 



Genus 14. Mustela. p. 45. 



Nine species. 



Type by tautonymy : M. erminea ("Mustela" Gesner ; mis- 

 quoted Mustela vulgaris), 



Althovigh in this instance alone of the Gesner quotations of the 

 ' Systema ' a second name is attached to the piimaiy one, for which 

 tautonymy is claimed, this proves to be a misquotation by Linnseus, 

 and the correct quotations seem actually to strengthen the case 

 for the Ermine being really the typical tautonymous species. For 

 though Linnfeus quotes " Mustela vulgaris, Gesner," we find, as a 

 matter of fact, that Gesner* did not -put Mustela vulgaris, but 

 simply "Mustela" in the German edition (that quoted in the 

 1758 ' Systema ') and in the Latin one " MiLstela proprie sic dicta," 

 in contradistinction to his " Mustelis diversis," which included the 

 Marten and Polecat. 



The Ermine was therefore clearly the Mustela of both Gesner 

 and Linnseus, and should be treated as the type species. 



Species : 



1. LUTEis. p. 45. Latax. 



No Linnean reference. 



Lutra marina, Act. Petrop. 1749, p. 267, i. e. Steller, Nov. 



Comm. Petrop. ii. p. 367 (1751). 

 Lutra brasiliensis, Rai, quadr. p. " 187 " (189). 

 The primary reference is clearly to Steller, and the type 

 locality Kamtchatka. 



2. lutra. p. 45. Latra. 



Linnean reference: Faun. Suecica, no. 10. 



European Otter. 

 Type locality : TJpsala. 



3. GULO. p. 45. Gulo. 



Linnean reference : Faun. Suecica, no, 6, 



Glutton. 



" Habitat in alpibus Lapponicis, Dalekarlicis, sylvisque 

 vastissimis." 



Taking the first place mentioned we have 

 Type locality : Lapland. 



4. BARBARA, p. 46, Tayra. 



Tayra, by description. 



" Habitat in Brasilia, M. Ac. Holmens." 



* The pagination of Gesner quoted by Linnaeus is somewhat confusing. While, in 

 the majority of cases (e. (f., the Puforms), the pages are quoted from the 1620 Latin 

 edition, the " Martes " and the '' Mustela vulgaris " are given as " 151 " and " 149," 

 these pages coming from the German edition of 1606. Their respective numbers in 

 the 2nd Latin edition (1620) are 764 and 753, and in the original edition (1551) 865 

 and 851. 



