242 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIV. 



S. Miiller and H. Sclilegel of the Squirrels inhabiting the 

 Indian Archipelago. 



Beitrage zur Saugtnier-Fauna von Kaschmir, by A. 

 Wagner, in Baron von Hiigel's ' Kaschmir/ iv, s. 567. 

 The Reporter has endeavoured, so far as materials suf- 

 ficed, to depict the Mammalian Fauna of Cashmire, and 

 has established as new species Megaderma spectrum and 

 Herpestres pallidus. Figures are given of the first-men- 

 tioned species, of Lepus macrotus and Capra Falconeri. 



Only two Parts have appeared, in 1843, of A. Smith's 

 ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa/ London. 

 Nos. 20 and 21 are published, but the work is slow in 

 progress. 



' Untersuchungen liber die Fauna Peruana auf einer Reise 

 in Peru wahrend der Jahre/ 1838-42, von Dr. J. J. von 

 Tschudi. St. Gallen, 1844; 2 Parts containing the Mam- 

 malia. 



This is one of the most important physio-historical books of travel, 

 revealing as it does to ns the Fauna of a country hitherto but little known 

 and yet exciting a high degree of interest, by reason of its contrast 

 with the Brazilian fauna. Tor the first time we obtain satisfactory infor- 

 mation concerning this remarkable fauna, and the Reporter freely confesses 

 that but few works of travel have insured him so much gratification and 

 instruction as the present. During the past year two parts have appeared, 

 which begin with a geographical sketch of Peru, and a systematic enume- 

 ration (given in our Archives, s. 221) of all the Peruvian Mammalia known 

 up to the present time ; whereupon follows the description of the Apes and a 

 portion of the Cheiroptera. The descriptions are executed with masterly 

 precision and acute critical discernment ; the mode of living and geo- 

 grapliical distribution very fully treated of, and the figures true to nature and 

 beautiful. The external appearance of the work is pleasing, with a praise- 

 worthy avoidance of all unnecessary ornament. In the ' Isis/ s. 83, a survey 

 has been communicated, by an unknown writer, of the Mammalia occurring 

 in this colony, that by no means corresponds to scientific requirements, yet 

 contains a very creditable outline, especially of the geographical distribution, 

 of the species. 



Several works of more general scope than the above have 

 appeared as contributions to our knowledge of the fossil 

 remains of the primo-mundanc and warm-blooded animals. 



