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black-brown stiffer hairs ; whiskers very long, black ; upper 

 lip, lower side of head, throat, chest, underside of body, and 

 inner side of limbs pure white ; ears rather large, naked ; tail 

 elongate, rather longer than body and head, rather thick at the 

 base, tapering, black, terminal quarter white; feet covered 

 with very short hair ; claws strong, naked. 



Skull elongate, 2 3 inches long, and 1 ( 4 inch broad at the 

 zygomatic arch. Nearly the same size as the skull of Bandicota 

 gigantea; but the forehead is much more curved down, the 

 cavity in front of the orbit is smaller, and the front edge 

 of the cavity is not thickened on the front margin, and is 

 furnished with an acute, subcentral, conical projection, con- 

 tracting on the upper part of the perpendicular cleft. Teeth 

 bright yellow and much incurved. Palatine slits rather short, 

 not more than two thirds the length of the slits in B. gigantea, 

 nor nearly so long as they are in the much smaller Mus 

 decumanus. 



Mus. 



Skull elongate, twice as long as broad at the hinder edge of 

 the orbit. The slit in front of the orbit narrow, elongate, ex- 

 tended above into an oval cavity. Slit in the front of the 

 palate elongate. 



Mus decumanus, M. rattus, M. indicus, M. piloides, M. cer- 

 vinipes, Holochilus brasiliensis, H. cephalotes, and Mus alex- 

 andrinus, which has the slit in front of the nostrils shorter and 

 wider than the rest, as is also the case with Laggada platythrix, 

 L. boodunga, Golunda barbara, and G. meltada : these have 

 the front teeth smooth ; G. Ellioti has the front teeth with a 

 central longitudinal groove. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Tlie Sea and its Living Wonders ; a Popidar Account of the Marvels 

 of the Deep, and of the Progress of Maritime Discovery from the 

 earliest ages to the present time. By Dr. Gr. Haexwig. 4th edition. 

 8vo. Longmans : London, 1873. 



On the appearance of the first edition of this book we gave a 

 notice of its contents in this journal ; and it is with pleasure that 

 we now announce the publication of a fourth edition. Dr. Hartwig's 

 volume is undoubtedly one of the best of the tolerably numerous class 

 to which it belongs ; and it is rather to be wondered that it has not 

 secured even a wider sale than would seem to be indicated by the 

 number of editions which it has reached. 



In the new edition the general treatment of the subject is the same 

 as in former issues ; but the author has made many important addi- 



