Geology and Natural History. 233 
been incompletely ossified. The fore and hind limbs are about 
equal in length and each Breet ered. M. Gaudry remarks that the 
Pelion (Raniceps) Lyelli Wyman, of the Ohio Carboniferous, which 
Wyman was disposed to refer to the Batrachians, was probably re- 
lated to the Protriton; and that the Apateon pedestris of Miinster- 
sine sad fae o be identical with the Protriton petrolet. 
Mende aay Extinction of the ancient Fauna of the Island of 
- Aves. Mitnu-Epwarps.—A m — entitled 
0 
tinct species named by A. Miln e-Edwards, Erythromachus > 
Ardea m SA tees Athene murivora, and ecropsittacus Roderi- 
canus. In 1761, when the astronomer Pingré was living there, 
the Solitaires had become so rare that he knew of them only from 
aving been seen by him. The extinction of the 
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in 
Company in 1759 and 1760, enumerates the vessels sent nee the 
land-tortoises, and shows that the ey took away in less than 18 
months over 30 ge fect is not surprising, the author cme ‘that 
these animals, on mall ot —— notwithstanding their fecun- 
dity, could not Wietand means of destru 
man was the agent of extermination both for the tontsiach and the 
bi —— Hise cutee Rend., May, 18 
se gigantic vr ie. * nile extinct on the Islands of 
Mauritine Rodriguez, and Réunion, are living on that of Aldabra, 
another of the Mixtaroas Group. But there is danger of its extine- 
tion there. To prevent this, if possible, a memorial has been 
addressed to the Governor and Commander-in-c hief of Mauritius 
saltes that some means may be devised for “ saving the ast ex- 
em ae vi a diene meels of the Dodo and Solitaire.” The memo- 
5. Religuie Aquitanice ; being ———— to ane 
and esse ensc of Périgord and the adjoining Provinces of 
20 by Epovarp Larrer and Henry Curisty. 
Edited by Pasuak tinea Seu ws. PRS, PGS, &c., 
— Roy. Mi. mo Staff Colleges, Sandhurst. Part XVI, May, 
875. Pages 225-256 and 183-187. Plate C. 1x and x.—This 
par of the Reliquie Aquitanice contains, among its interesting 
acts and illustrations, a figure of a fish in outline, from a Reindeer 
