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appears, perhaps, still more wb apd from its carnivorous animals, 
among which we notice on, the leopard, the spotted hyena, several 
belonging to the genera Herpestes and Bdeogale. One species of 
Viverra, the Rasse of Horsfield, observed upon Anjoan, furnishes an- 
other evidence that even the small islands east of the African continent 
artake more of the Zoological character of the East Indies a > 
agascar, than of Africa itself. Of gnawing animals, twenty-three spe- 
cies were Haney belonging to the genera Sciurus, Myoxus, Meriones, 
Mus, mys, Cricetomys, Hystrix, and Lepus, and to four new gen- 
P 
Besides these Pachyderms, one species of Phacochcerus, and one 
yrax are notice mong ruminants, the giraffe is wanting, nor are 
even domesticated ‘éamels ever seen in or but the antelopes 
occur very extensively, and several new species are described. Do- 
sticated goats, sheep, and cattle have been isdidend from the Co- 
moro Islands and from Madagascar. ome varieties of sheep have been 
i il 
of Mossambique is Bos caffer, a species formerly found as far south as 
the Cape. Of Cetacea, the Dugong, Halicore indicus, inhabits almost 
the whole eastern coast o rica. The sperm whale, ven" macro- 
cephalus, is said to have been very common in — — f Mossam 
bique ; ‘it is now rare there, as are also other Cetac 
It is to be hoped that the next volumes of this Gecke of the Oriental 
coast of Africa will soon follow “a first. We may look forward to a 
great —— oy in becoming acquainted with the fishes of the 
Zambese. works furnish cishabic contributions not only to spe- 
cial zoology, but also to the geography of animals, and are equally 
creditable rf their authors and to the governments clemtcepea* suc! 
costly publications. 
n the Osteology of the Head of Hippopotamus, and a penser 
tion of the Osteological characters of a new genus of Hippopotamide ; 
by Jos. en M.D. From the souronl of the Acad. of Nat. ogee! 
ton as hese liberi iensis is not — secibunlly distinct, but 
a distinct genus, for which the name Cheeropsis is proposed. 
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