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II. Orders, Families and Genera. 

 1. Quadrumana. 



Fam. Simiae. 



Ehlers, E., Beitrage zur Kenntnis des Gorilla und Cliimpanse. in: Abhandl. k. Ges. Wiss. 



Gottingen. 1881. 75 p. and four plates. 

 Meyer, A. B., Ein angeblicher Bastard zwischen Gorilla und Chimpanse in : Zool. Garten. 



1881. p. 231237. 

 Riese, A., Der Narnen des Gorilla. Ebenda. 1881. p. 52. 



Pryer, W. B., has found on the island of Balhalla, just outside the Bay of 

 Sandakan, Borneo, a Monkey, perhaps new for science. In its markings it resembled 

 Semnopitheciis nemaeus, but it had a nose as large as Semn. nasalis. (The Zoologist. 

 October 1881. p. 398.) 



Forbes, W. A., On the external characters and anatomy of the Red Uakari Monkey (Bra- 

 chyurus rubicundus) ; with remarks on the other species of that Genus, in : Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London. 1880. p. 627 648; with coloured plates LXI LXIII, and eleven 

 woodcuts, representing the hand and foot, the liver, parts of the skull, the brain in 

 several positions and a map showing the distribution. 



The species are arranged as follows : a. Facie nigra : 1. Brachyurm melanoce- 

 phalus (plate LXIII). (3. Facie rubra : 2. Brachyurus calvus and 3. Brachyurus 

 rubicundus (plates LXI, LXII) . 



2. Ferae. 



Cornish, Thomas, On the former existence of the Bear and Wolf in Cornwall, in: The Zoo- 

 logist. August 1881. p. 332. 



Fam. Felidae. 



Cocks, A. Heneage, Wild Cat breeding in confinement, in : The Zoologist. July 1881. p. 307. 

 Elliot, D. G., A monograph of the Felidae or Family of Cats. 1881. Part VIII. Contains 



descriptions and coloured plates of Felis concolor, marmorata, cervaria and manul. 

 IWivart, St. Geo., The Cat: an Introduction to the study of Back-boned Animals, especially 



Mammals. With 200 illustrations. London, Murray, 1881. 8. 530 p. Ex Anzeiger. 



Fam. Canidae. 



Cope, E. D., On the Canidae of the Loup Fork Epoch, in: Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. 



Survey Territories. 1881. p. 387 391. 



Aelurodon ferox = Canis saevus. The genus Aelurodon must be added to the 

 Canidae. He knows three species of this genus, viz : Aelurodon saevus Leidy, Ael. 

 wheelerianus Cope and a new one, vide infra. 



Canis brachypm (foss.) n. sp. Cope. (Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geogr. Survey Territor. 

 1881. p. 389.) Discovered in a sandy bed near Laramie Peak, Wyoming Terri- 

 tory. 



Aelurodon hyaenoides (foss.) n. sp. Cope. (ibid. p. 388.) Found in Southern Ne- 

 braska. 



Fam. Mustelidae. 



Hensel, Reinhold, Craniologische Studien. in : Nova Acta d. K. Leop. C. D. Akad. d. Na- 



turforscher. Halle, 1881. p. 127196. T. VI XIII. 

 With figures of the skulls of Foetorius putorius, Eversmanni, furo, lutreola, vison, 



