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mon opossums (Didelphys virginianus), bred in the garden; 32 
Amblystoma mavortium and 10 of the siredon form of that species 
from Wyoming ; 2 sand toads (Bufo vulgaris), England; 1 buffalo 
(Bison americanus), 2 bred in the garden; 1 black ape ( Cynopithecus 
niger), Phillipine Islands; 1 moor macaque (Macacus maurus), 
Borneo (?); 2 ashy-black macaques(Macacus ocreatus), Celebes (?) ; 
1 African python (Python sebe); 1 Egyptian cobra (Wata haje); 
I clapper rail (Rallus longirostris), New Jersey; 1 horned lizard 
(Phrynosoma douglassi); 1 rufous rat kangaroo (Aypsiprymnus 
rufescens), and 27 water snakes (TZropidonotus fasciatus), born in 
the garden; 1 rattlesnake (Croialus atrox)?; parasitic jæger gull 
(Stercorarius parasiticus), North Atlantic; 1 great kangaroo ( Ma- 
cropus giganteus); 15 banded rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus), and 
5 water moccasins (Avcistrodon piscivorus), born in the garden; 
1 booby gannet (Su/a fiber), captured off Cape Henlopen; 2 com- 
mon squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris), Europe; 1 orang-utan (Sinia 
satyrus), 2 Borneo; 1 Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana), Africa ; 
1 saddle-billed stork (Xenorhynchus senegalensis), West Africa; 1 
tapir (Zapirus terrestris) 2; 4 Yarrell’s curassows (Crax carucu- 
ata); 4 razor-billed curassows (Mitua tuberosa); 1 red-breasted 
swan (Penelope pileata), and 18 boas (Boa constrictor), South 
America; 1 eland (Oreas canna), Africa, and 2 black wolves (Canis 
lupus ater), received in exchange; I hog-nosed snake (Heter- 
odon simus nasicus), and 1 rattlesnake (Crotalus confluentus) Col- 
orado; 1 soft-shelled turtle (Aspidonectes, sp. ?); 1 Javan chevro- 
tain (Tragulus javanicus), 9 bred in the garden; 2 hawks (Buteo, 
sp. ?), Colorado. 
— It will appear by the following note from Prof. Bitge that we 
Were in error as to the completeness of the series of Bronn’s 
Klassen und Ordnungen. 
_ “ Your reviewer has apparently fallen into some errors respect- 
ing Bronn’s Klassen und Ordnungen. The work is not yet ‘ draw- — 
ing to a close.’ The Amphibia are the only class of Vertebrates _ 
completed ; the fishes and reptiles only just begun, while twenty- 
two parts have only partly finished the osteology of mammals, 
“The six parts on birds, treating of osteology and part of the- 
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myology, were published nearly ten years ago and none since. — “ 
Of Crustacea, the first volume is just complete, treating of t 
_Entomostraca only. The worms and insects are not yet begun, 
while the earlier volumes, especially those on Protozoa and Radi- — : 
ata, are somewhat antiquated. a 
“The work is indeed invaluable, but no one should buy it in 
expectation of soon getting the remainder. It has been now ~ 
twenty years publishing, and at the present rate will not be com- 
pleted in less than twenty more. Only two volumes, that on 
__ Amphibia and the first volume on Arthropoda, have been finished 
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