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proboscis and the peculiar, superior and inferior retractors of the penis are 

 described ; figures are given of the muscles of the proboscis, the brain, 

 male sexual organs, stomach, and caecum (Mem. dc la Soc. Linn, de 

 Normandie, 1842, and thence in Miiller's Archiv. 184-3, s. cclix). 



RUMINANTIA. 



TYLOPODA. Under the article ' Chameau' in the Diet. 

 Univers. d'Hist. Nat. iii, p. 378, Quatrefages has given a 

 review of this family. 



In the happy ignorance with respect to German Literature enjoyed by the 

 author, he still mentions the fabled provision of water by the Camel, for the 

 sake of which the animals are killed, in case of dearth of water in the 

 caravans. In the same way, he still proposes for examination the dentition 

 in the young animal, although this subject has been long since exhausted by 

 us, and he entertains the flattering notion that we have still to await 

 information from Duvernoy, to become at all acquainted with the con- 

 formation of the stomach of the Llama, of which, moreover, the author 

 does not appear as yet to have any accurate knowledge. 



Staunius has made the interesting observation, that the new-born Llama, 

 like the young Camel, as was first stated by the Reporter, is provided 

 with four incisors in the upper jaw. (Joh. Miiller's Arch, fur Auat. 1842, 

 p. 388.) 



CERVINA.- Copious anatomical researches on the Musk 

 Animal of Java have been communicated by Rapp in these 

 Archives, p. 43. 



He showed, simultaneously with Leuckart (Miiller's Archiv, 1S43, p. 24), 

 that the third stomach (psalterium) is wanting, so that the Musk Deer of 

 Java, like the Llama and Camel, has but three stomachs, which are the 

 paunch, the reticulum, and the true stomach. 



The question as to the time of rutting and of gestation of the Roe 

 has now been fully determined by Ziegler, in his interesting memoir (Beo- 

 bachtungen iiber die Brunft und den Embryo der Rehe, Hanuov. 1843). 

 He found ruptured Graafian vesicles as early as the middle of August ; but 

 the ovules require three months before they reach the uterus through the, 

 narrow oviducts. Some confirmatory observations have been contributed 

 by L. Bischoff in Miiller's 'Archiv,' 1843, s. clxxvi. 



Remarks on the occurrence of the Deer species in Northern Russia, 

 are given in Blasius' ' Travels in European Russia,' i, p. 262. 



