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much modified, and in some cases extirpated by human agency. 
Of mammals, the cat is reported to have become feral, and rats 
and mice swarm ; Cetacea occasionally frequent the coast. The land 
birds comprise a species of dove, a tyrant, and a greenlet (Virio). 
Sea birds are numerous, but by no means so abundant as they were 
formerly when the island was first discovered. Among the reptiles 
were found a species of Amphisbeena, a scink (Huprepes punctatus), 
a gecko; turtles are also frequently seen in the bays. Batrachians 
and fresh-water fish are entirely absent. One butterfly, a well- 
known Brazilian species, was plentiful; but insects, though abun- 
dant, were poor in number of species. Two species of Trochi 
called for remark as having a southern distribution, the remainder 
of the marine shells, and indeed most of the marine fauna and flora, 
show affinities to that of the West Indies. 
Muscues or Brrps.—The researches of the late A. H. Garrod in 
the line of avian myology, did much to place the classification of 
birds upon a firm basis, as may be seen in any recent ornithological 
treatise of value. He showed that the peculiarities of certain mus- 
cles could be made of value in indicating the affinities of the 
different genera families, etc. Garrod’s work has recently been 
presented to the American students in the shape of an illustrated 
review by Dr. Shufeldt, in the Journal of Comparative Medicine 
and Surgery for October, 1887. Dr. Shufeldt does not discuss the 
laryngeal muscles, but he adds to the muscles employed by Garrod 
the dermo-tensor patagii, as well as calling attention to the syste- 
matic value of vther characters than the mere presence of Garrod’s 
classificatory muscles. 
A GULAR GLAND IN THE BANDED ANT-EaTER.—Mr. F. E. 
Beddard calls attention (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 527. 1887) 
to a remarkable glandular structure just in front of the sternum of 
the banded ant-eater (Myrmecobius fasciatus) of Australia. In the 
region of the gland the integument is naked and studded with the 
apertures of the glands of which there are four distinct kinds: 
(1) sweat glands; (2) sebaceous glands; (3) sudoriferous glands; 
and (4) a large compound tubular gland. Of these, 1, 2, and 3 are 
confined to the integument, but the fourth is situated in the con- 
hective tissue underlying the dermis. The duct of the last has not 
een found. Histologically it resembles a sweat gland, and is 
divided by partitions of connective tissue. 
THE MAMMALIA OF THE MaraGHa Bep.—A report on this 
Subject by Dr, Kittl is published in the last number of the Annalen 
of K. K. Naturhistorischen Hofmusewms, of Vienna. The species 
obtained number twenty-two, of which more than half have been 
Previously discovered at Pikermi, near Athens, and the others do 
not indicate any wide difference of fauna. Among the peculiar 
