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REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCLXII : 
H. Freyer, Fauna der in Krain bekannten Saugtliiere, 
Vogel, Reptilien und Fische ; nach Cuvier’s System geordnet, 
etc. Laibach, 1842. 
I have not yet received this Fauna, although ordered, owing most 
probably to the ditficulty of intercourse between the Leipsic booksellers 
and those of the provincial towns of Austria. 
Landbek’s Beitrage zur Zoologischen Geographic, die 
Saugthiere Siebenbiirgens. (Isis, 1842, p. 176). 
A very grateful contribution to Animal Geography, as we have 
hitherto known almost nothing of the Fauna of Siebenbiirgen, although 
the variety of its physical relations led us to expect much that is remark- 
able with regard to it. Amongst those species more deserving of notice, 
I may here quote, Ursus arctos, Felis lynx, Castor fiber, Arctomys 
Bobac or Marmotta, Lepus variabilis. Antilope rupicapra, Capra ibex, 
almost extirpated. In all, fifty species are described. 
Faune Beige, Ire Partie : indication Methodique des Mam- 
miferes, Oiseaux, Reptiles et Poissons observes jusqu’ici en 
Belgique, par Edm. de Selys Longchamps. Liege, 1842. 
Besides eleven species of Domestic Animals, the author enumerates 
sixty-three species of Mammalia for Belgium. Among these he reckons the 
Human as one, and after it immediately follows the Badger. That the 
author has felt the unfitness of such an arrangement is evident, from his 
attempting a sort of apology for it. 310 species of Birds are mentioned 
as being found in Belgium. 
As the making out of these Faunas rests upon numerous personal 
observations, this work may be regarded as a highly valuable contri- 
bution to the knowledge of European species and their geographical 
distribution. 
Bonaparte, Iconografia della Fauna Italica. Tom. 1. Mam- 
miferi et Uccelli. Roma, 1832-41. 
The conclusion of this beautiful work has now reached us. Of the 
ninety species of Mammalia which the author ascribes to Italy, forty-four 
are here represented; and of 390 species of Birds, thirty-five. This 
Iconografia is the most important contribution to the knowledge of the 
remarkable Fauna of the basin of the Mediterranean ; and the Prince 
has gained not less merit by its publication, than he did by that of the 
North American Fauna. 
Travels in Kashmir, Ladak, Iscardo, the countries adjoining 
the Mountain Course of the Indus, and the Himalaya north of 
the Panjab, by G. T. Vigne. In 2 vols. Loud. 1842. 
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