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animals can be carried from one part of Europe to another 

 without the slightest inconvenience. Sleeping accommoda- 

 tions are provided for the attendants, and the water is to be 

 kept in constant agitation by means of machinery worked by 

 the wheels of the carriages. 18-4, October 25, 1872, 135. 



A FOSSIL LEMUROID FROM THE EOCENE OF WYOMING. 



Professor Cope recently read a paper before the American 

 Philosophical Society on an extinct mammal from Wyoming, 

 which he called Anaptomorplius cemulus. The number of 

 teeth in the lower jaw is precisely the same as in man and 

 the higher apes, but their structure is more nearly that of 

 certain lemurs at present existing in Madagascar and East 

 Africa. This resemblance is closer than has yet been dis- 

 covered to exist in any fossil germs, but is somewhat dimin- 

 ished by the separation by suture of the halves of the lower 

 jaw. The animal was as large as a squirrel. 



BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. 



In a valuable manual of British ornithology, entitled Hand- 

 Book of British Birds, lately published by Mr. J. E. Harting, 

 the species of the isles are divided into three groups. First, 

 Residents, or those that rear their young annually in the 

 British Islands, and are to be found in one part or another 

 of the United Kingdom throughout the year; these are 130 

 in number. Second, Periodical Migrants, or those that arrive 

 annually and regularly at particular seasons, and whose ar- 

 rival and departure may be foretold with precision ; these 

 are 100 in number. Third, Annual Visitants, those that oc- 

 cur annually in some part of the British Islands, and in a com- 

 paratively limited number and at irregular intervals ; in this 

 group there are 30. In addition to the regular feathered in- 

 habitants of the islands are the rare and accidental visitors, 

 numbering 135; among which are 48 of European, 14 of 

 Asiatic, 11 of African, and 42 of American origin, exclusive 

 of oceanic birds. 13 A, October 15, 1872,391. 



COMPARATIVE ANTIQUITY OF THE MOA. 



Dr. Hector reports the discovery of a moa's egg, containing 

 the bones of an embryo chick, and still more recently that of 

 the cervical vertebrae of a full-sized bird, with a skin partly 



