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that of the Scottish shepherd dog had already been pointed 

 out by Hamilton Smith in his volume on dogs in the Nat- 

 uralist's Library. A similar close relationship between the 

 skull of the prairie-wolf and that of Ca?iis lupaster of Af- 

 rica suggested itself to Dr. John E. Gray, who remarks that 

 " the American species replaces the jackal of the Old World." 

 Mittheilungen der Anthropol. GesellscJiaft^Wien^ August 15, 

 1872,240. 



THE MAMMALS OF THIBET. 



The well-known French missionary of the order of Lazar- 

 ists, Abbe Armand David, whose name has already been men- 

 tioned in these pages in connection with researches in North- 

 ern China, left Pekin in May, 1868, to visit Eastern Thibet. 

 He explored a portion of that country almost unknown to 

 geographers an independent principality named Moussin, 

 adjoining the southwestern boundary of China, and inhabited 

 by a people called Montzes. It is invaded by the Himalaya 

 Mountains, and thus, though in the same latitude as Egypt, 

 has peaks covered with eternal snow, and its winters are very 

 severe. The abbe fixed his head-quarters in one of the largest 

 valleys, at an elevation of about 2200 meters above the level 

 of the sea. He remained there a year, and formed a truly 

 magnificent collection, and for a notice of the mammalogical 

 portion thereof we are indebted to Mr. Alphonse Milne Ed- 

 wards. According to this notice fifty-nine species of mam- 

 mals were obtained, representing seven orders, as follows : 

 Four monkeys, seventeen carnivores, nine ruminants, one hog, 

 five bats, eight insectivores, and fifteen rodents. No less 

 than seven of these represent as many new genera: A monk- 

 ey (Rhinojnthecus), a very remarkable bear (Ailuropms), a 

 small deer (Elajyhodus), a swimming shrew (JVectogale), a 

 very short-tailed shrew {Anourosorex), a mole ( Uropsilus) 

 like the American and Japanese Urotrichus, but approaching 

 nearer the shrews, and another mole (Sccfptonyx), somewhat 

 intermediate between the true moles and Urotrichus, and 

 combining the feet of the latter with the head of a mole. 



The most interesting of these animals to the general reader 

 are the monkey and the bear. 



The monkey, as he waxes old, turns up its nose more and 

 more, and finally the end is on a line with the eyebrows; its 



