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with frequent stoppages. It evidently seeks shelter from the 

 sun, but gives no sign of discrimination between objects, walking 

 against dogs and cats and people as readily as against wood and 

 stone. The trunk is never lifted from the ground, and the com- 

 pressed tail rests on one side, but the head and neck are some- 

 times raised. 



The respiratory actions in deep water I have not accurately ob- 

 served, but in shallow water, just covering it, the nostrils are 

 raised above the surface at frequent intervals, a slight hissing- 

 sound is heard, and after the nostrils are again carried below the 

 surface, a few bubbles of air escape therefrom and there are mus- 

 cular movements about the neck. During an hour, in freshly 

 changed water, these respiratory actions occurred at intervals 

 varying from half a minute to twelve minutes, but usually the 



No notice was taken of raw or cooked beef or fish, either float- 

 ing at the surface, lying at the bottom or suspended just above 

 the water. 



But if bits of food are dropped close to the mouth or allowed to 

 slide over the top of the head, or held at the lips, they are readily 

 snapped up and swallowed, if not too large. After a time the 

 head was moved slowly toward meat held about one centimeter 

 from the lips, but I could not determine whether sight or smell 

 .were the sense concerned. Neither have I ascertained the func- 

 tion of the tubercles. 



This specimen has now eaten the following articles: Beef 

 heart, raw and boiled ; blue-fish, raw and broiled ; hard boiled 

 white of egg, canned roast beef, raw Limb's heart, liver, diaphragm, 

 thymus and lung, baked maccaroni. Evidently there is no diffi- 



culty m keeping the 

 I hope to make 

 comparison with M< 

 Ithaca, N. Y} 



careful observations of 

 mopoma and Menobran< 



Cryptobranchus in 

 :hus.— B. G. Wilder, 



Mammals of Ne 

 Natural History, Ge 

 species of mammals 

 and A. A. Bruijn, ill 



w Guinea. 2 — The Annal 



collected in New Guinea 

 ust rated with fourteen pi 



or of the Berlin Museum 



s of the Museum of 

 1 a list of fifty-seven 

 ,byL. M. D'Albertis 

 lates of new species. 

 has been performed 

 , and G. Doria, direc- 



In their introducer' 

 element in the New 



Pials, forming alnios 

 have been found, an. 



ion these gentlemen stat< 

 Guinea fauna is continu 



rits and Dromiaa. Thirt 

 t the half of the known 



t that the Australian 

 allv on the increase, 

 island of the genera 

 :y species of marsu- 

 mammals of Papua, 

 species are peculiar, 



