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Principe de Beira about the 10th of August 1829, and reached 

 Borba, on the Lower Madeira, on the 24th of November. Hei*e, 

 and in this neighbourhood, he stopped until August 1830, and 

 then commenced his eighth expedition up the Rio Negro. Leav- 

 ing Borba on the 25th of August, he reached Barra de Rio Negro 

 on the 10th of September, and remained there about two 

 months. Thence he ascended the Rio Negro to San Jose de 

 Marabitaaas, the frontier fort of Brazil on the Rio Negro, which 

 he reached on the 16th of January 1831. Hence excursions 

 were made to the Venezuelan town of San Carlos, and up the 

 rivers Xie, Ijanna, and Vaupe. Finally Natterer returned to 

 Barcellos on the 23rd of August. 



5. The Guiana- Brazilian Fauna. — The author restricts this 

 term (which in our opinion ought to include the whole valley 

 of the Rio Negro, or at any rate its left bank) to the district of 

 the Rio Braucho^ which Natterer ascended soon after his return 

 to Barcellos in the autumn of 1831. At Forte do S. Joaquim, 

 on the confines of Guiana, he passed six months, and returned 

 to Barra at the end of August 1832. 



6. Fauna of the Lower Amazons, i. e. of the Amazons below 

 Barra down to the sea-coast. Natterer did not finally leave 

 Bai-ra until July 1834, and reached Para in September. The 

 next year was devoted to the investigation of the district of 

 Para, after which the indefatigable traveller had purposed to work 

 along the Brazilian coast-provinces of Maranhao, Rio Grande de 

 Norte, Parahiba, and Pernambuco, and so back to Rio. But a 

 popular disturbance, which broke out in Para in 1835, caused 

 him to alter his plans. His house and effects were plundered 

 by the insurgents, and the fine collection of living animals de- 

 stined for the Imperial Menagerie at Schoubrunn destroyed. On 

 the 15th of September 1835, he embarked at Para for Europe, 

 and finally quitted the scene of his labours. 



We may perhaps say that we do not quite hold to Herr von 

 Pelzeln's views as regards these six " faunas,^^ though there 

 can be no question of the value of the tables he has prepared to 

 illustrate the geographical distribution of the species. We 

 think it would have been better to have made the divisions into 

 "faunas" coincide with the river-basins. At any rate, as al- 



