988 MONOGRAPHS OF NORTH AMERICAN RODENTIA. 
by Paul Allen, esq. | Revised and abridged by the omission of unimportant de- | tails, with an 
introduction and notes, | by Archibald M’Vickar. | In two volumes. | Vol. i[-ii]. | New York, 
Harper & Brothers, publishers, | franklin Square, 1868, ; 
[Two vols, 18°, some of the issues forming part of Harper’s series, “The Family Library”. Vol. i, pp. i-vi, 
i*-y*, vii-li, 53-371, 3 maps. Vol. ii, pp. i-x, 11-395, 3 maps. (> Vol. ii, Appendix, ‘‘Further enumeration and 
description of the quadrapeds, birds, fishes, and plants noticed during the expedition”’, pp. 339-378.) 
Memoranda of the dates of the successive issues, most of which consisted of 250 copies:—September, 1842 ; 
January, 1843; May, 1843; January, 1844; July, 1845; April, 1847; May, 1850; August, 1851; June, 1855; April, 
1858; November, 1860; February, 1863; March, 1871 (vol. ii); April, 1872 (vol. i) ; February, 1874 (vol. ii); De- 
cember, 1875 (vol. i); in all fourteen issues of the whole work, under sixteen different dates. 
This is an editorial abridgment, or digest, of the original of 1814, qg. v., faithfally and, on the whole, judi- 
ciously executed. The natural-history chapter, besides being relegated to an appendix, is transposed as to its 
botanical and zoological portions. It is furthermore abridged at the editor's discretion, the omissions being 
indicated by asterisks. A new feature is foot-note references to the pages of the body of the work on which 
the various species were before mentioned. This is a valnable set of cross-references, for the narrative ac- 
counts scattered through the work are often no less important than the formal notices themselves.] 
1843.—Harlan, R. Remarks on Prof. Owen’s letter. [About Harlan’s notice of new fossil mammalia. ] 
<Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, xlv, 1843, pp. 208-211. 
1843-45.—Gray, J. EB. Zoology of the voyage of H. M. 8. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir 
Edward Belcher. .... Parts i, ii. Mammalia. By J. E.Gray. 4°. London, 1843-45. 
1844.—Gregeg, J. Commerce of the prairies. 2 vols. 12°. Philadelphia, 1844. 
{Contains interesting notices of some of the larger mammals of the plains :—bison, elk, deer, bear, wolves, 
prairie-dogs, ete.] 
Schubert, G.H. Mittheilung von Correspondenzen aus Labrador [iiber seine Landsiiugethiere, 
Wasser-, Land- und Strandvégel]. < Miinehen. Bull. Akad. 1844, col. 121-126, 129-133; 
Miinchen. Gelehrte Anz. xviii, 1844, col. 418-422. 
1845.—Pucheran, J. Description de quelques mammiferes américaivs. < Revue Zool. viii, 1845, pp- 
330-037, 369-373. 
1846,—Carpenter, W. M. Remarks on some fossil bones recently brought to New Orleans from 
Tennessee and from Texas. < Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts (2), i, 1846, art. xii, pp. 244-250, with 
4 fi_g 
5° 
Falconer, H., and Cantley, P. T. Fauna antiqua sivalensis, being the fossil zoology of the 
Sewalih Hills, in the north of India. .... [Edited by Hugh Faleconer.] Letterpress.—Part i. 
Proboscidea. 8°. 64 pp. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1846. 
Godman, J.D. American natural history. .... To which is added his last work, The ram- 
bles of a naturalist, with a biographical sketch of the author. In 2 volumes. 3ded. Phila- 
delphia, Uriah Hunt & Son, 1846. Vol. i, eng. title, 345 pp. (xiii + 382), 27 pll. Vol. ii, eng. 
title, 337 pp., 22 pll. 
Hallowell, E. [Description of the locality whence a collection of fossil bones presented to the 
academy by Mr. Wm. Pancoast had been obtained, and an enumeration of the same.] < Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iii, 1846, p. 130. c _ 
Owen, ash Observations on certain fossils from the collection of the Academy of Natural 
Sciences-of Philadelphia. < Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. iii, 1846, pp. 93-96. 
1846-54.—Audubon, J. J., and Bachman, J. The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. ..... 
New York, 1846-54. 3 vols. Roy. 8°. Vol. i, pub. by J. J. Audubon, 13846, pp. xiv, 1, 389, pll. 1-50. 
Vol. ii, pub. by V. G. Audubon, 1851, title, pp. 334, 1 1., pll. 51-100. Vol. iii, pub. by same, 
1853-54 (entitled ‘‘ The quadrupeds of North America”, date 1854 on title-page), 1 p. 1., pp. v, 
343, pll. 101-155. é 
[The plates of this work are said to have been or‘ginally published in numbers, in oblong folio, without text, 
beginning as far back as 1340. The plates in the edition above given are in roy. 8°, intercalated with the text. 
Another edition or reprint, in roy, 8°, plates interealated, appears, pub. by V. G. Audubon, in numbers, 
1851-54, designed to be bound in 3 vo’s. The copy examined is as follows:—‘ The quadrupeds of North Amer- 
ica. ... Vol.i, New York, published by V. G. Audubon, 1851", pp. i-viii, 1-384, pll. 1-50.) Vol. ii (no title-page), 
pp. 1-334, 1 1., pll 51-100. Vol. iii, 1854, 1 p.1., pp. i-v, 1-348, pll. 101-155. Vols. ii and iii thus seem to be identical 
with the originals. Though vol. iii is dated 1854, pp. 1-254 are said to have appeared jn 1853, the remainder 
in 1854. 
These authors treat of 197 species, of which abont 160 are figured. Few are here described as new, the 
original descriptions having mostly appeared elsewhere. See e.g. under dates 1839 and 1841. The technical 
portions of the work are supposed to be mainly attributable to Bachman, the other author having attended to 
the illustrations and poriions of the biographical matter. Many of the plates were drawn by J. W. Audubon.) 
