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these countries are named as the foregoing, Tupdia. He 

 then describes a species or a variety of this genus brought 

 from Pegu by M. Belanger. A very laborious notice of 

 the Sloths ? (Sores,) terminates the history of the insecti- 

 vora. We find in this part of the work a critical review 

 of the large species of India and Africa, which is a recapi- 

 tulation partly of the Memoir of 18^6, which our colleague 

 has published on the same subject in the Annales du 

 Museum. 



The Carnivora afford the subject of two articles; in one 

 of these our colleague establishes the genus Melogale on a 

 very remarkable species of the family of Martins, which he 

 names Melogale personata ; and in the other he describe* 

 a new species of Cat, the red spotted cat, Felis rubiginosa, 

 Geof. These two Mammals have been discovered by M. 

 Belanger, the first at Pegu in the vicinity of Rangoon, the 

 second near Pondichery. 



It is by the Rodents that he terminates the Mammalia 

 collected during the travels of which we are treating. M. 

 Geoffroy describes in this group, the red-rumped Squirrel of 

 Pegu, Sciurus pygerythrus^ Geof. and the Spermophilus con- 

 color, Geof. of Persia, due to the researches of our traveller. 



M. Lesson, to whom was confided the elucidation of the 

 birds, like M. Geoffroy, has not confined his observations 

 merely to the animals collected by M. Belanger. This 

 journey has afforded also to M. Lesson the fortunate oppor- 

 tunity of elucidating certain points of the doctrines of Orni- 

 thology. His share of the labour commences with a very 

 comprehensive discourse on the geographical distribution of 

 birds on the surface of the globe, in which he developes his 

 views relative to the formation of the globe itself, as well as 

 the succession of living beings by which it is peopled. This is 

 followed by the description of thirty-nine new, or imperfectly 

 known species, which belong chiefly to the collections of M. 

 Belanger. We mention amongst those which we owe to the 



