CERCOLEPTES. 299 



Ursus nasua, G. Cavier Tabl. Element, d' Hist. Nat., p. 113 (1798)*- 



Nasua quasje, iJesmarcs^ N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat., vii, p. 217 (1817). 



Nasua rufa, Desmarest Mamm., p. 170 (l8ao) ; Mien Bull. U. S. Geol- 



Surv.,v, p. 170. 

 Nasua fusca, Desmarest Mamm., p. 170 (1820). 

 Nasua solitaria, Pr. Maximilian z« Wied Beitr. Natitrg. Bras., ii, p. 



292 (1826)*. 

 Nasua socialis, Pr. Maximilian eu Wied Beitr. Naturg. Bras., ii, p. 283, 



(1826)*. .. 

 Nasua vittata, Tschudi Faun. Peruan., p. loi (1844). 

 Nasua montana, id. ibid, p. 102, pi. ^r (1844). 

 Nasua narica, Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 74 (1843) [pt.]. 

 Nasua olivacea, Gray P.Z.S , p. 703 (1864). 

 Nasua dorsalis, Gray P. Z. S., p. 169, pi. xvli (1866). 



The Ring-tailed Coati. 



Distribution. — South America from Surinam to Paraguay and 

 from the Atlantic to the Andes. 



a. Skin, skelet. W. Rutledge. 



i 



b. Skin, skelet. Purchased. 



iuv. $ 



c. Skin, skelet. Purchased. 



d. Skin, skelet. W. Rutledge. 



e. Stuffed Brazil Rajah R. Mullick, 1866. 



/. Skull Surinam A. D.Bartlett, 1849, A.S.B. 



Nasua nasica. 



Viverra narica, Linncsus Syst. Nat,, 12th ed., i, p. 64 ((766). ' 



Nasua narica, Gray List Mamm. B. M., p. 74 (1843) [pt.] ; Blyih Cat. no. 



221, p. 7S ; Allen Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey, v, p. 162. 

 Nasua leucorhynchos, Tschudi Faun. Peruan., p. 100 (1844). 

 Nasua solitaria var. mexicana, Weinland Zool. Gart.,\, p. igi (l86o)*. 

 Nasua socialis, De Saussure Zool. Gart., iii) p. 53 (1862)*. 

 Bassaricyon gabbii, Allen P. Acad. N. Sri. Philad., p. 20 (1876). 



The White-nosed Coati. 



Distriiution. — Central America, Texas and California south- 

 wards as far as the Isthmus of Panania. 



a. Skin and 9 Purchased, 1878. 



skelet. 



b. Stuffed g America W. Rutledge, 18701 



Genus CERCOLEPTES. 



Potos, G. Cuvier Tableau Gen.in Lcfons, d'Anat. Camp,, 1st ed. i, (1800)*. 

 Kinkajou, Lacepede Mem. Inst. Paris, iii, p. 492 (i8oi). 

 Cercoleptes, IlHger Prodr., p. 127 {181 1). 



Cercoleptes caudivolvulus. 



Viverra caudivolvula, Schreber Saugeth., iii, p. 453, pi. cxxv (177B 

 Lemur flavus Sckreber SSugetk., i, p. i4S,pl. xlii 1778), 



