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of the kangaroo, and a drawing by Zimmermann of Macropus 
thetidis (one- eighth natural size). The Monotremes are also well 
drawn, as will be seen by the accompanying figures of ae T 
hystrix, and its skeleton ; the pair of duck-bills is wel 
The bears are well figured with one or two gee ‘We 
are not well suited with the group of prairie dogs, and in the ac- 
count of them more perhaps might have been quoted from Amer- 
ican authors, than from passing German travelers. The Egyptian 
Jerboa is well drawn and described at length, while no mention is 
made of our American jumping mouse or Meriones hudsonicus, and 
our characteristic jackass rabbit is not mentioned, much less 
figured. Still the work is of great value to the general reader and 
student of nature, as well as the special zoologist, as being a 
treasury of excellent intustiations and descriptions of the habits 
of the most striking animals of the globe; and we hope that the 
work will meet with a good sale in this country, where we are too 
much inclined to study American species alone. The price of the 
work in this country is 40 cents a part or about $5.00 a volume, 
which is certainly very reasonable. 
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