REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXL1II. 



Scarcely had Harris completed his South-African Journey, when he ofl'i -i< 

 himself to lead an English mission to Schoa, where he remained eighteen 

 mouths. Dr. Johannes Roth, of Munich, accompanied this expedition as 

 naturalist, and has given, in a special Appendix to the Second Part, his 

 remarks on the Geology, Botany, and Zoology of the South Abyssinian 

 Highlands. Respecting the Mammalia, some very valuable notices art- 

 given by him. 



Om Professor J. Hedenborg's insamlingar af Daggdjur i 

 Nordostra Africa ocli Arabien, af Carl J. Sundevall. (K. \ . 

 Acad. Haiidl. Stockli. 1842, pp. 189-244.) 



A highly important contribution (of which, by the kindness of the author, 

 I was furnished with a separate copy, even before the publication of the 

 A\ hole volume) towards the knowledge of the Mammalian Eauna of the Nile 

 countries, particularly of Senuaar, and also of Arabia Petrsea. With won- 

 derful perseverance were these and other objects collected by Hedenborg, 

 and with the greatest accuracy has Sundevall undertaken the determination 

 of the Mammalia. The collection contains the following species, of which 

 those to Avhich no locality is assigned belong to Semiaar. (a) APES : Si-niiu 

 stibviridis, Er. Cuv. (S. yriseo viridis rec.), pyrrhonotus, and Anubis. Ololic- 

 irus Teng, Hedeub., n. sp. (from Bahr el Abiad). (b) BATS: Pteropus stra- 

 mi/ieus. Megaderma frons (Bahr el Abiad). Nycteris tliebaica (ib.). Dysopcs 

 Midas, lied., u. sp. (ib.). (c) CAKNIVOKA : Felis maniculata (Bahr el Abiad), 

 clidns (Egypt), and caracal (Nubia). Hyana, striata. Canis variegatus, 

 lupaster, niloticus (Egypt), famelicus (Sinai), pallidus, Zerda (Bahr el Abiad). 

 Tiverra genetta, var. dongalana (Bahr cl Abiad), var. Senegalensis, Er. Cuv. 

 Ilcrpestes ichneumon (Egypt), and leucurus (Bahr el Abiad). Lipottts (Gr/tlo) 

 mellivorus. Ictonyx frenata, n. sp., Mmtela Boccamela (Cau-o). (?) INSECTI- 

 VOKA: Erinacem heterodactyhis, n. sp., and platyotis, n. sp. (Egypt). Sorex 

 Hedenborgi, n. sp., sericeus, n. sp. KaAfnlvaster, n. sp. (e) RODENTIA: Sciurus 

 Ic/icombrinits. Mas decumanus, Alexandrinm, s. tectorum (Cairo and Alexandria), 

 ritttus (ib.), ctllipes, and macrolepis, n. sp., (Bahr el Azrak), oricntalis (Cairo), 

 together with a var. "subtusalbus." Isomys i-ariegatus (Egypt), and testicularis, 

 n. sp. (Bahr el Abiad). Acorn ys caldrimis (Alexandria), id. var. H. dimidiatus 

 and russatus (Sinai). Heriones gerbillus (Bahr el Abiad), vemtstiis. n. sp. (ib.), 

 innriniis, n. sp. (ib.), and crassm, n. sp. (Sinai). Psammomys obesus (Alexand.). 

 J)ipns liirlipes, and cegyptius (Egypt). Lepus sinaitic us (locality unknown), and 

 ,i //liupiciis. (/) EDENTATA : Orycteropus cethiopicus, n. sp. (Bahr el Abiad). 

 \Iit,tis Temminckii, (il).). (</) PACHYDEKMATA : Hippopotamus ampliibius 

 (Nile). Hyrax sy riacus, and Jiabessinicm (?). (//) RUMINAXTIA : Camelopar- 

 ,/iilix (1'intjfa. Oryx leucoryx. B/ibalus htnatiis. Ant Hope Daaia, Scemmerrinffii, 

 Itun-iix, and Kevclla. Cnpra Bcden (Sinai), and Hirctis, var. dom. setniaa- 

 riensis. 



