244 I- Vertebrata. 



Young, J., Siskins (Chrysomitris spinus) breeding in Confinement, in: Zoologist. Vol.4. 

 Nr. 38. p. 6163. 



Bei SchluB des Berichtes haben den Referenten noch nicht vorgelegen : Proc. 

 Lin. Soc. N.S. Wales. 1880 und Proceed. Un. Stat. Nat. Museum. Vol. 2. 1879.] 



6. Mammalia. 



(Referent: Dr. F. A. Jentink in Leyden.) 



I. The General Subject. 



d'Albertis, L. M., New-Guinea: what I did and what I saw. 2 Vols. with 4 col. pi. and nume- 

 rous cuts. London. Sampson Low and Co. 1880. 8. Ex Anz. 



Albrecht. P., Uber den Stammbaum der Hufthiere und Edentaten. in : Schriften der Phys.- 

 Ocon. Gesellsch. zu Konigsberg. 21. Jahrg. Erste Abth. 1880. p. 22 24. 

 He unites the Ungulata and Edentata in a single group, which he calls Unyu- 

 ledentata and further divides as follows : 



A. Anatoxa: J. Bradipodoidea (Gravigrada Owen and Tardigrada Illiger). 

 2. Mutica Huxl. 3. Tubulidentata. 4. Squamata. 



B. Katatoxa: 1 Loricata Huxl. 2. Ungulata. 



He subdivides the Ungulata in : a. Diatreta : 1 . Tapiroidea < Tapiridea, Palaeo- 

 therium, Tapirina, lihinoceronta , Equina, Macrauchenia , Tylopoda) . 2. Suina. 

 b. Atreta: Anoplotheridea, Tragulidae, Moschidae, Cervidae (Alcina, Camelopar- 

 dalina, Cervinaj and Cavicornia [Ovina, Caprina, Antilopina, Bovina) . 

 Allen, Joel Asaph, History of North American Pinnipeds. A Monograph of the Walrusses, 

 Seelions, Seebears and Seals of N. America. Washington. 1880. Miscellaneous publi- 

 cations. Nr. 12. Departm. of the Inter, in : U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey of the Terri- 

 tories. 785 pages. 8, with 60 woodcuts. 

 He describes and distinguishes the following families and species : 



A. Odobaenidae : O.rosmarns and obesus. 



B. Otariidae: 1. Eumetopias Stelleri. 



2. Zalophus calif ornianus. 



3. Callorhimis ursinus. 



C. Phocidae. a. P/tocinae: 1. Phoca vitulina. P. (Pttsa foetida. P. (Payophilits] 



groenlandica. 



2. Erignathus barbatus. 



3 . Histriophoca fasciata . 



4. Halichoents grypxs. 



5. Monacktts tropicalis. 

 b . Cystophorin ae . 



1 . Cystophora cristata. 



2. Macrorhinus anyustirostris. 

 Alston, Edward Ii., vide Charles G. Danford. 



, Mammalia. Zoological Record for 1878. London. 1880. 8. p. 124. Volume XV. of 

 the Record of Zoological literature. By Edward Caldwell Rye. 



, The Fauna of Scotland, with special reference to Clydesdale and the Western District. 



Mammalia. Published by the Natural History Society of Glascow. 1880. p. 39. 

 I. Recent species: Plccotus auritus L., Vesperugo pipislrelltts Schreber, Vesper- 

 tiho Daiibentoni Leisl., Erinaceus europactts L. 7 Talpa europaea L., Sorex tetra- 





