INTRODUCTION. 



The List of Specimens of the Edentate, Thick-skinned and 

 Euminant Mammals and of their bones in the British Museum. 

 These Specimens have been described — 



1st. In the * Catalogue of Specimens of Mammalia in the 



British Museum.' Part III. — Ungulata. Furcipeda. 



London, 1852. 12mo, with plates of skulls. 

 2nd. In the ' Catalogue of Carnivorous, Pachydermatous and 



Edentate Mammalia in the British Museum.' London, 



1869. 8vo, mth figures of skulls. 

 3rd. In the * Catalogue of Euminant MammaUa {Pecora, 



Linnaeus) in the British Museum.' London, 1872. 



8vo, with plates of skulls. 



The new species and improvements in the arrangement of the 

 animals that may have been discovered since the publication of 

 these works have been adopted, and a reference made to where 

 such species have been noticed, or are here described. When any 

 of the specimens have served as the types of a description or 

 figure of the species in any scientific work, reference is made to 

 where the description and figure are to be found. Whenever 

 the specimen has been presented or obtained directly from a 

 collector, the name of the presentor or collector, and the habitat 

 sent with the specimen, have been recorded immediately after 

 the specimen ; but the far greater number of the specimens 

 have been obtained from dealers, with only the most general 

 habitats. The condition in which the specimen is preserved, 



