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MAMMALIA. 
species are not described ; but annotations, chiefly on their dis- 
tribution and variation, are added. Also their synonymy is 
worked out. 
Northern China. M. Milne-Edwards has continued his 
researches into the Mammalian Fauna of China (Reclierch. 
Mammif.) , and brought his account as far as the genus Felts 
(p. 206). 
India. ^ The Highlands of Central India : Notes on their 
Forests and Wild Tribes, Natural History and Sports,^ by J. 
Forsyth. London : 1871. 8vo, pp. 472, with map and illustra- 
tions. We notice this work on account of the mass of informa- 
tion regarding the habits and distribution of the larger Mam- 
malia inhabiting Central India. This information is all the more 
valuable as it is based on the personal experience of the author, 
who was not only a genuine sportsman, but also a keen observer 
of nature. He gives admirable accounts of the Gaur, the Deer, 
and Antelopes, Tiger, Panther, &c. We cannot but think that 
the premature death of the author is a great loss to the service 
to which he belonged, as well as to science. 
.\Eyypt. On the Pig and Sheep in ancient Egypt, see two 
papers by Poulin, referred to below under Bus scrofa, p. 15, and 
Ovis aries, p. 16. 
United States. Notes on the range of some of the Animals 
in America at the time of the arrival of the White Men,^^ by 
W. J. Hays (Amer. Nat. 1871, v. pp. 387-393), contain numerous 
interesting historical facts. 
Peru. Notes on the Monkeys of Eastern Peru,^^ by Edward 
Bartlett. P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 217-220. 
Patagonia. ^ Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of 
Magellan and West Coast of Patagonia, made during the Voyage 
of H.M.S. ^ Nassau^ in the years 1866-69,^ by E. O. Cunning- 
ham (Edinburgh : 1871. 8vo, pp. 517), contain numerous observa- 
tions on the Mammals seen by the author on the coasts of the 
southernmost parts of South America. 
Australia. Mr. Krefft has published a list of ‘ Australian 
Vertebrata, Fossil and Recent.^ Sydney : 1871. 8vo. He 
enumerates, on pp. 1-22, some 110 Marsupials, 24 Bats, 1 Dog, 
30 Rats and Mice, and some Cetaceans and Seals. 
Dr. T. Gill has read a paper before the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, published in the Amer. 
Natur. 1871, V. pp. 526-533, and entitled, ^^On the characteristics 
of the primary groups of the class of Mammals.^^ This paper, 
in which the primary divisions and orders are fully characterized, 
is submitted in advance of a work now being printed by the 
Smithsonian Institution, in which will be given the characters, 
contrasted in dichotomous tables, of ail the groups as low as 
