]44 MR. OLDKIKIiL) THOMAS ON THE MAMMALS 



4. MURINA. p. 55. Marmosa. 



Linneaii reference : Amoen. Acad. i. p. 279. — This is an 

 error, the only Opossum referred to being the large 

 Dide IjjMs m arsupicdis . 

 Second reference : Seba, Mus. i. p. 48, pi. xxxi. figs. 1-2, 

 which must be taken as the ba.sis of the name. 

 Murine Opossum. 



Co-types in British Museum, Nos. 67.4.12.541-542 (see P. Z. S. 

 1892, p. 314). 



Suggested type locality : Surinam. 



5. DORSiGBBA. p. 55. Mcirmosa. 

 Primary reference to Seba, Mus. i. p. 49, pi. xxxi. fig. 5. 



Synonym of Marmosa murina. 



Type in British Museum, No. 67.4.12,546. 



Suggested type locality : Surinam. 



Oenus 22, Rhinoceros, p. 56. 



Two species. Type by tautonymy : R. unicornis ('• Rhinoceros, 

 Jonst."). 



Species : 



1. UNICORNIS, p. 56. ■ Rhinoceros. 

 Linnean reference : Syst. Nat. (6) p, 11, no, 1. 



One-horned Indian Rhinoceros. 



From Jonston's 'Quadrupeds' (p. 67, 1657), the first work 

 quoted in the 10th edition, we get the 

 Type locality : Bengal. 



2. BicoRNis. p. 56, Diceros. 

 Linnean reference: Syst. Nat, (6) p, 11, no. 2, where no 



further quotation is given. 



Always accepted as the African Two-horned Rhinoceros. 



Type locality not determinable, except that the Cape may 

 generally be considered the place whence early specimens wei'e- 

 brought '' Habitat in India " may, as usual, be entirely ignored. 



Genus 23. Hystrix. p. 56. 

 Five species, T3'pe by tautonymy : R. crisfate(" Hystrix, Gesn."). 



Species : 



1. CRIST ATA. p. 56. Hystrix. 



Linnean reference : Syst. Nat. (6) p. 9, no. 1, where the fir,st 

 quotation is to Ray (Quadr, p. 2U6), whence we find 

 Type locality : Ronae. 

 Common Porcupine, 



