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ZOOLOGICAL LITEaATUllE. 
^4 Canis familiaris. Mr. R. Brown communicates his observations on the 
Greenland Dog, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 346. 
Cams vulpes. The fox of Japan is not distinct from the European. Mar- 
tens, Preuss. Exped. nach Ost-Asien, Zool. i. p. 152.-^R. Dieck has described 
the subcutaneous muscles of the head of the fox. Zeitschr. ges. Ntrwiss. 
xxxi. pp. 218-223. — Ilr. Donitz describes a monstrous skull of a fox, re- 
sembling that of a bulldog. Sitzgsber. Ges. ntrf. Freund. Berlin, 18Q8 
(1869), p. 21. 
Proteles lalandii living in the menagerie of the Zoological Society of 
London, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 530. 
Mustelidas. 
Lutra. Prof. Giebel describes the skulls of Lutra vulgaris, L. canadensis, 
L. paranensis, L. huidrohia, L. felina, L. leptonyx, L. inunguis. Zeitschr. ges. 
Ntrwiss. xxxi. pp. 210-217. 
Pteronura sandbachii is described and figured by Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1868,. p. 61, pi. 7 ; woodcuts of the skull are added. 
Ursid^. 
Ursus nasutus is described as a new species by Mr. Sclater, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1868, p. 71, pi. 8, probably from some part of South America. He 
states that nineteen individuals, belonging to eighteen species of bears, are 
living in the menagerie of the Zoological Society of London. 
Ursus maritimus. Mr. R. Brown communicates his observations, Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1868, p. 344. 
yi^Ieles. M. A. Milne-Edwards describes two new species from North 
/Ohina, Meles leptorJiynchus and Meles leucolcemus, Ann. Sc. Nat. viii. 1867, 
/ p. 374. — Dr. Gray has examined the badgers of the Paloearctic region, espe- 
/ cially with regard to characters derived from the skull ; he finds that they 
/ may be divided into two groups, the first of which would comprise M. taxtis 
and M. anakuma. The second had already been distinguished by Mr. Hodg- 
son under the name of Pseudomeles, comprising M. Icucurus, from Thibet, 
and a new species, M. chinensis (p. 207) from China, which may prove to be 
i the same as 3f. leptorhynchus of Milne-Edwards. The skull of this species 
figured. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1868, pp. 206-209. 
^Meles taxus. Messrs. Moseley and Ray Lankester describe a small pre- 
molar ift the upper jaw, which does not appear to be represented in the milk- 
dentition. Journ. Anat. & Phys. iii. p. 79. 
PlIOCIDAJ. 
Dr. Gray has again tahen up liis researches into that most 
difficult subject, the distinction of the species of Eared Seals. 
[See Zool. Record, iii. p. 28 et seq.'] In Ann. & Mag. Nat. 
Hist. 1868, i. p. 99, he examines the ^^Fur- and Hair-Seals of 
the Falkland Islands and Southern America,^^ and the literature 
referring to them, and distinguislies the five following . — 
1. The Falkland Seal of Pennant, Arctocephalus falkkmdicus. Phoca hau, 
villa (Lesson and Fischer) is probably to be referred to this Ibrm. Falkland 
Islands. 
