
No. 464.] NOTES AND LITERATURE. 605 
unknown to the compiler. Comparison with this might have been of 
considerable value and would have prevented, for example, the omis- 
sion of Fiber osoyoosensis Lord, 1863. 
. Considering the editorial difficulties presented by a work of this 
nature, typographical errors are few. Several cases occur, however, 
in which the prefix denoting fossil species only is inadvertently 
applied in connection with living forms, e. g., Lama vicugna and 
Trichechus manatus. 'The specific name of the capybara is mis- 
spelled four times on p. 529. 
The Catalogus gives evidence of laborious and painstaking work 
throughout, and is indispensable to all working mammalogists. For 
this reason, however, it is to be regretted that the price (12 Marks 
per fascicle) is such as to place it beyond the means of many who 
need it. 
G. M. A. 
( No. 463 was issued July 13, 1905.) 

