1383. ] Recent Literature. 183, 
for mounting the microscopic preparations when made; rather an 
omission, The list of 1500 works and articles on systematic 
zoology is well classified and selected, and we do not notice any 
omissions of importance. This naturalist’s assistant is on the 
whole a timely and useful work, and we can recommend it to be- 
ginners, students, teachers and curators of museums as a very 
handy book. There is no book of the sort in the market. 
BICKNELL’S SUMMER BIRDS OF THE CATskIL1s.'—In the preface 
to this work, the author remarks that many important facts rela- 
ting to the ornithology of the Appalachians generally rest solely 
upon the authority of Audubon and Wilson. To aid in working 
up this important region, Mr. Bicknell spent three successive 
summers in the southern Catskills in the neighborhood of Slide 
mountain (4205 feet), the highest of the range. The list includes 
ninety species, among which are the whip-poor-will and eight out 
ofthe ten thrushes which belong to theeastern faunal province. The 
summits have a Canadian fauna, but the true Alleghanian fauna 
predominates, passing into the Carolinian at the lower part of the 
Hudson valley. 
mong mammals, the porcupine (Erethizon) is abundant and 
stupidly tame about the highest mountain summits. No tortoises 
were noted, and only three species of serpents were seen. The 
memoir is carefully written, and is an able contribution to distri- 
butional zodlogy. 
Fitnor’s Nores on Some Fossi Mammats2—The exploitation 
iia £5. eed chalk of Quercy continually brings to light new 
cts, n A . . . 
previously described forms, and describes several new species of 
Carnivora and Ungulata. Among the new forms are a species of 
€ genus Oxyæna, furnishing another link between the tertiary 
fauna of Europe and America, a species of Cephalogale, one of 
Cynodon, and three of Galecynus ( Cynodictis). Stenoplesictis, a 
doubtful genus with so hat musteline characters, furnishes two 
Species, Among the un; late forms, Mizxiothert spidatum is per- 
haps the most remarkable. Others are Mixocherus primevu 
‘li ble. BUNS, 
Amphimeryx parvulus, Deilotherium simplex, and Spantotherium 
oat... it some remarks upon the humerus, femur, tibia, and astra- 
Pe fig A escriptions are as usual, excellent. We cannot 
Rai Wof the Summer Birds of a part of the Catskill mcuntains. By E: P. 
iféres fossiles c jorites du Quercy. Par'M. 
