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1^or the use of the copy which we have consulted, we have great 

 pleasure in returning our thanks to Barron Field, Esq. F.L.S., hy 

 whose kindness we were favoured with the use of the earliest 

 copy which reached the British metropolis. 



In the arrangement of their work MM. Quoy and Gaimard 

 have followed that of the Regne Animal of the Baron Cuvier. 

 Their first chapter consequently embraces the history of the 

 most striking variety or species of the human race which they 

 had occasion to observe, the Islander of New Guinea.r Of this 

 we shall offer no analysis ; nor shall we enter into any details 

 with respect to the second chapter which contains general re* 

 marks on the Mammalia and Birds observed at the principal 

 resting-places of the expedition, each of these furnishing materials 

 for a separate section. The third chapter is devoted to the de- 

 scriptions of the Mammalia collected, and which, although not 

 numerous, nor offering any type of form differing from those 

 already known, are yet interesting as exhibiting several new 

 species. 



The first of these is a new species of Pteropus, from the Island 

 of Guam, one of the Ladrones. It is thus characterized, P. Kc" 

 raudren^ " Body and wings blackish ; neck, shoulders, and hin- 

 der part of the head yellow; auricles short; tail none." The 

 extent of its wings when expanded varies from two feet to two 

 feet and a half ; and its length from the tip of the nose to the 

 anus, from six to eight inches. This is succeeded by a new 

 species of Perameles, from New Holland, the P. Bougainville^ 

 *' Body rufous above, cinereous beneath : head elongated, acute ; 

 ears ovate, long." It is chiefly by this last character that it 

 differs from P. nasuta. The Dasyurus Maugei^ a well known 

 species, is now figured for the first time ; as is also the Phalan- 

 gista 7naculata ; another species of this latter genus being given 

 as new under the name of P. Quoy, but which has been pre- 

 viously described by M. Desmarest under that of P. Papuensis* 

 The same observation applies to the Potorous White, a species 

 which has also been previously described by Desmarest as the 

 Kangurus Gaimardi^ and by MM. Quoy and Gaimard them* 



