380 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Freshwater, including the 

 most minute, systematically arranged and embellished with figures,' 4to, 

 London, 1803. Supplement to the preceding, 1809, with plates and 

 descriptions of new species. In the ' Transactions ' of the Linnean Society 

 he published the following papers : — " Description of three rare species of 

 British Birds," vol. iv. 1798. "Description of several Marine Animals 

 found on the coast of Devonshire," vol. vii. 1802. " On some species of 

 British Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fishes," vol. vii. 1803. " On the larger 

 and lesser species of Horseshoe Bats, proving them to be distinct, with a 

 description of Vespertilio barbastellus taken in the south of Devonshire," 

 vol. ix. 1805. " On the Natural History of the Falco cyanens and pygargus" 

 vol. ix. 1807. " Of several new or rare Animals, principally Marine, dis- 

 covered on the south coast of Devonshire," vol. xi. 1809. " Of some new 

 and rare British Marine Shells and Animals," ib. He also furnished six 

 papers to the Wernerian Natural History Society, which were published 

 between March, 1809, and March, 1815. 



The following very interesting communication has recently appeared in 

 the ' Westminster Gazette ' : — 



" The appetite of the zoological world has been very much whetted of 

 late by the news of the discovery in South Patagonia of a portion of mam- 

 malian skin which, it is conjectured, may once have formed part of a 

 genuine Mylodon, or Ground Sloth. This interesting animal has long 

 been supposed to be extinct, and its reappearance in the wilds of South 

 America would create a sensation as pronounced almost as if a Great 

 Bustard had again swooped down upon Cavenham Heath, or a Large 

 Copper been brought to the net in the neighbourhood of Whittlesea Mere. 

 To use a departmental expression, some further tidings of the Mylodon — 

 whether in flesh or fossil — are just now very much 'wanted,' and besides 

 Mr. H. S. H. Cavendish, the well-known traveller, who has gone forth with 

 confidence to shoot one for the authorities at South Kensington, Mr. George 

 Davis and Mr. Scott, of Aberystwyth, are making tracks for the monster in 

 the Patagonian forests at the instance of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, 

 M.P., the owner of the famous museum at Tring. 



11 The details of this important, and possibly sensational, discovery come 

 from two different sources, and are somewhat conflicting. Dr. F. P. 

 Moreno, who recently arrived in England, brought with him a portion of 

 the skin (described as being as dry as leather, hairy, and thickly encrusted 

 with some bony substance), which was found hanging in a tree, it being 

 part of a much larger piece which some Argentine officers had dug up in a 

 cavern several years previously. In close proximity were discovered some 



