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termination of the first two volumes, it seemed almost as thougBf 

 the undertaking had proved too extensive to be continued on the 

 liberal plan on which it had been commenced. About the middle 

 of the last year however, the publication was resumed in a style 

 fully equal to its earlier portions, and the succeeding numbers 

 have since appeared with regularity. As it will doubtless form 

 the standard work of reference for the Mammalia, we trust that 

 such encouragement will be extended to it as will ensure its com- 

 pletion. Necessarily too expensive for general circulation, public 

 libraries and the collections of the rich can alone possess it; but 

 to these it is almost indispensable ', while the manner in which it 

 is executed renders it worthy of a place by the side of their most 

 costly and elegant volumes. 



It is not our intention to enter into a general account of the 

 contents of these numbers, much of which is of necessity well 

 known to every zoologist ; but merely to look to them occasion- 

 ally for the purpose of noticing the new matter they may con- 

 tain, either with reference to animals now first described, or to 

 those improved views of the science which the conjoined industry 

 of felloAv-labourers in the same cause, though in diflFerent climates, 

 may succeed in eliciting. In both these respects the present 

 numbers are rich ; and several of the new animals contained in 

 them possess a still higher interest as tending to elucidate the 

 connection between the different groups. 



The first of these which we shall notice, is an animal from the 

 western coast of Africa, described under the name of Mangue, 

 and belonging to the Viverrine or Marten family. In general 

 appearance it approaches more nearly to the Mangoustes (Her- 

 pestes, 111.) than to any other genus of this group, but its form 

 is more compact, and its head more rounded ; the snout is also 

 more lengthened, in which respect, and in its perfectly planti- 

 grade motion, it resembles the Suricate (Rt/zcena, 111. Viverra 

 tetradactylUi L.). The osculant position between the Mangoustes 

 and the Suricate, indicated by these external marks is further 

 confirmed by other characters. The teeth of the Mangue agree 

 in number with those of the Suricate, but in form with those of 

 the Mangoustes ; with the latter it corresponds moreover in its 



