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Famille dcs Talpid6s — Continued. 

 Tribu des Condylnres. 



Genre Condylnre (Condylnra). 

 Tribu des Taupes. 



Genre Taupe (Talpa). 



Though in Freuch form, the names of the tribes correspond more 

 closely to tliose now in use than do Pomel's. Like Pomel, he has 

 separated Chyt/sochlori,s under a distinct tribal name, which was a step 

 toward its final elimination from the i'amily Talpidiv. 



In the supplement to Schreber's Sailgethiere, by J. A. Wagner, i)ub- 

 lished in 1855, the classification is simple in that the genera of moles 

 are brought together under a family designation {Taljnna), without 

 intermediate divisions. His arrangement is defective in that he includes 

 Chrysochloris in the family and places Mygale with the shrews. Peters 

 employed the same form for the family in 18G4, but included Mygale? 



In these two instances there is no special improvement, so far as this 

 family is concerned, over Gray's classification of 1821. 



It was reserved for Dr. Mivart, in 18G7, to fiimlly remove Chrysochloris 

 to a distinct family established for its reception. The moles were then 

 classified as follows: 



Family Talpid;.'. 



Subfamily Talpiua. 



Scalops. 



Scajiauus. 



Condylura. 



Talpa. 

 Subfamily Myojialina. 



Urotricbus. 



Myogale. - 



We come finally to Dr. Gill, who accepted IVfivart's arrangement of 

 the family, but elaborated it by dividing the two subfamilies into sec- 

 tions, as follows : 



Family TalpidiP. 

 Subfamily Talpinu'. 

 (Talpa-). 

 Talpa. 

 Mogera. 

 Parascaptor. 

 Scaptochirus. 

 Scaptonyx. 

 (Condylura'). 

 Condylura. 

 (Scalopes). 

 Scalops. 

 Seapauus. 

 Subfamily Mjgalina'. 



(Mygabe). 



Desman (=;Mygale). 



(Urotrichi). 



Urotricbus. 



Uropsilus. ' 



' Monatsbcricbte Akad. Wissenscb. Berlin, 186.5, ji. 286. 



Mourn. Anat. & Pbysiol., I, 1867, p. 281. 



^Bull. Geol. and Geog. Survey of tlie Territories, No. 2, 2 ser., 1875, p. 110. 



