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sHES—Miss Rosa Smith has described a new species of 
m-fish (Tetraodon setosus) in the Bulletin of the California 
Academy (vol. ii.). It is based on a dried skin brought from 
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Structure which appears to correspond to the mammalian epi- 
‘glottis, and which, in some species, becomes well developed as _ 
a organ of voice. 
: Reptitta—Prof. O. P. Hay gives (Hour. Cincinnati Nat. Hist. 
Sw, X. pt. 2) a preliminary catalogue of the Batrachia and 
Reptilia of Indiana. Seventy-seven species are enumerated. 
Biros. —W. E. Bryant publishes, in the Bulletin of the Cali- 
fornia Academy of Sciences, some additions to the ornithology 
of Guadeloupe Island. There were previously known but eight 
ds from this locality, but Mr. Bryant catalogues thirty-five 
Species and sub-species. s 
The ostrich in the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens is dead. 
$ Charles Dury, in an account of the death, states that the 
l a: roke its leg in an attempt to lay an abnormal egg. The 
_ unary ostrich-egg measures about five by six and one-quarter 
«es, but this one consisted, of a normal egg as a centre, and 
“ound this there were about. twenty leathery layers, the whole 
Measuring about thirteen by eighteen inches. 
ap Ats —Dr . Ch. Lütken, of Copenhagen, states that prob- — 
a. the habitat of the rare Chiropodomys penicillatus is Java, 
‘Bintenzyr Nhagen Museum having received one in spirit from 
that the "8. He also says, on the authority of Dr. H. Winge, 
same |, ‘City museum of Genoa has several specimens from the 
‘ocality 
IPE a dard publishes an account of the visceral anatomy 
ain of the Sondaic rhinoceros in vol. xii. of the Trans- 
ome of eefPoid apes, It is illustrated with thirteen plates, — 
oe ored, Oe 
E Preliminary notice of a paper by Oldfield Thomas, on the aS 
pears in hye Succession of the Teeth in the Dasyuride, so 
author > 294 Of the Proceedings of the Royal Society. me 
which all mammals except the Edentates readily Eo 
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Presents an outline of a scheme of homology of the 
