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in the course of a revision of the European anthracotheres, 

 Verh. naturfor. Ges. Basel, vol. xxi. pp. 165-85, has described two 

 new species of the type genus. In his above-quoted memoir on 

 the mammals of the Swiss Eocene {supra, p. 664), the same writer 

 discusses the phylogeny of the early Tertiary Suidce and their 

 relatives, and also describes several new species belonging 

 to that family and the Anthracotheriidce. Of special interest 

 to English palaeontologists is his reference of a skull from 

 Hordwell which I identified many years ago with Anthraco- 

 therium gresslyi (Meyer) to a new species oi Haplobunodon, under 

 the name of H. lydekkeri. Reference may again be made here 

 to Mr. Pilgrim's Dorcabime, believed to connect the Anthra- 

 cotheriidce with the Tragulidce. 



In a paper on a new genus of peccary {Pediohyus) from 

 the Tertiary of Wyoming, published in the Amer. Joitrn. 

 Science, vol. xxx. pp. 381-84, Mr, Loomis discusses the 

 phylogeny of the family. The group, although distinctly 

 American, and dating from the Oligocene, is considered to be 

 of Asiatic origin, and derived from a primitive type of the 

 Old World Hyotherium. Starting in America from the Middle 

 Oligocene Perchoerus, the group, when it reached the Lower 

 Miocene Desmathyus, split into three branches, of which one 

 culminated in the modern peccaries, while the other two died 

 out in the Pleistocene, one in the form of Mylohyus and the 

 second in Platygonus. 



Passing to the Equidce, Dr. Boule, as the result of researches 

 undertaken at the expense of the Prince of Monaco, has been 

 able to furnish information with regard to the members of 

 the family inhabiting France during the Pleistocene ; his paper 

 on equine remains from the Grottes de Grimaldi being published 

 in the Afinales de Paleontologie, vol. v. part 3, pp. 1-23. The 

 remains represent a horse specifically identical with Eqiius 

 caballns and approaching in character the large modern Per- 

 cheron breed. This race was larger than the ordinary cave- 

 horse, which is allied to the wild Mongolian tarpan. The cavern 

 also contained skulls and bones of a smaller and more delicate 

 character, some of which appear to be referable to the wild 

 ass {Equus asiniis), and not to the onager {E. onager). Since, 

 however, other authors have identified the latter species in 

 certain caves, it would seem that the African wild ass and 

 the Asiatic onager lived side by side in southern Europe during 



