1074 MONOGRAPHS OF NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. 



1853. — Meigs, C. D. Memoir on the reprodnction of the opossum, Didelphis virginiana. <, Trans. Am. 



Pbilos. Soc. Phila. u. s., x, 1853, art. viii, pp. l.'jS-lOC. 

 1855. — Waterhouse, Gr. R. The natnralist's librarj. Edited by Sir William Jardine, Bart. ... Vol. 

 xsiv. — Mammalia. Marsupialia or pouched aaimals. . . . Edinburgh : W. H. Lizars, . . . ; 

 London, Henry G. Bohn, . . . 1855. 16°. Eng. title, 4 p. 11., pp. 17-323, 34 col. pll., portrait. 

 1863.— Engelmann, G. [Gestation of opossum.] < Trans. Acad. Sei. St. Louis, ii, li^63, p. 224. 



Sbute, J. G. [On the mode of birth in the opossum.] < Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, ix, 1863, 



p. 33i ; Proc. Essex Inst, iii, 1863, pp. 288, 289. 

 Tomes, R. F. Notice of a new American form of marsupial [Hyracodon]. < Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1863, pp. 50, 51, pi. viii. 



1865. Flower, W. H. On the commissures of the cerebral hemispheres of the Marsupialia and Mono- 



treraata, as compared with those of the placental mammalia. <^ Philos. Trans, civ, 1865, pp. 

 633-651, pll. 36-38 ; abstract in Proc. Roy. Soc. 1865, pp. 71-74. 

 1866. — Jtton. Gigantic marsupials of Victoria, Australia. <^ Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts (2), xli, 1866, pp. 

 258, 259. 



1867. Haughton, S. On some points in the muscular anatomy of the marsupials. <^ Ann. and Mag. 



Nat. Hist, xix, 1867, pp. 127-131. 

 McCoy, F. On a new genus of Phalanger (Gymnobelideus). < Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, xx, 

 1867, pp. 287,288, with 1 pi. 

 1867-68. — Flower, W. H. On the development and succession of the teeth in the Marsupialia, 

 < Philos. Trans, for 1867, clvii, 1868, pp. 631-641, pll. 39-40; abstract in Proc. Eoy. Soc. xv, 1867, 

 pp. 464-468 ; and in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist, xx, 1867, pp. 129-133. 

 1868. — Flo-wer, W. H. On the affiniiiea and probable habits of the extinct Australian marsupial, 

 Thylacoleo carnifex, Owen. <[ Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. London, xxiv, 1868, pp. 307-319. 

 Gervais, P. Mdmoire sur les formes c6r6brale8 propres aux raarsupiaux. <^ Nonv. Arch. Mus. 



Hi,>4t. Nat. Paris, t. v,,1869, M<5m. pp. 229-251, pll. 13, 14. 

 McCoy, P. On the species of wombats [Phascolomyidai]. (Abstract.) < Trans, and Proc. 



Roy. Soc. Victoria, viii, 1868, pp. 266-270. 

 Peters, W. Ueber das Os tympaniouni und dieGehorknochelchen der Schuabelthiere in Bezag 

 auf die Frage von der Deutung des Quadratbeines bei den Vogeln. < — ? Also, Ann. and Mag. 

 Nat. Hist, i, 1868, pp. 779-782, with 1 pi. 

 Sander, J. Ueber das Quercommissurensystem des Grosshirns bei den Beutelthieren [Marsu- 

 pialia]. < Arch. Anat. 1868, pp. 711-718, with 1 pi. 

 1369.— Editorial. Marsupial dogs. <Am. Nat. iii, 1869, p. 53. [From Q. J. Sci. .Jan. 1869, which see 



for author.] 

 1871. — Coues, E. On the myology of the Ornithorhynchus. < Comni. Essex Inst, vi, 1871, pp. 128-17.3. 

 1872. — Coues, E. The osteology and myology of Didelphys virginiana. With an appendix on the 

 brain, by JetJ'ries Wyman. < Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, ii, 1872, art. 3, pp. 41-154. 

 Lincecum, G. The opossum. < Am. Nat. vi, 1872, pp. 555-557. 

 1876.— Barnard, W. S. Observations on the development of Didelphys virginiana.- < Proc. Am. 

 Assoc. Adv. Sci. xxiv, 1876, pp. 145-147, tigg. 1-4. 



<t.-ADDENDA. 



[For most of the following titles, tbe compilers are indebted to tho kind attentions of Mr. J. A. Allen. They were 

 received during the printing of the Bibliography, but too late for insertion under their proper heads, and represent, in par- 

 ticular, many important palseontological papers by Leidy, Marsh, and Cope.] 



1780. — Clavigero, P. S. Storia antica del Messico. 4 vols. 4°. Cesena, 1780. 



1782. — Mackenzie, A. A general history of the fur trade from Canada to the northwest. < Macken- 



zii'.s Voyages, etc. vol. i, 1792, pp. 1-162. 

 1787. — Clavigero, F. S. History of Mexico, tran,slated from the It.ilian by C. Cullen. 2 vols. 4°. 



London, 1787. [Contains an alphabetical list of Mexican mammals, with descriptions and 



reniark.-ii.] 

 1815.— Illiger, C. Ueberblick der Sliugtbiere nach ihrer Vertheilung iiber die Welttheile. < Abhandl. 



der Kiiuig. Akad. der Wissousch. in Berlin, 1804-11 (1815), pp. 30-159. 



