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MAMMALIA. 
Tapirus hairdi. A young male figured. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 626, 
pi. 50. 
Equus cahallus, A case of polydactylism in a Horse described and figured 
by Wood-Mason, P. A. S.B. 1871, p. 18, pi. 1. 
Adnus. A. Sanson distinguishes from osteological characters two races or 
species of the domesticated Ass 1. A dolichocephalous race, E. asinus afri- 
canus, originally indigenous in the tertiary basin of the Nile, and now spread 
over the whole of Asia, Europe, and the north of Africa ; and 2. A brach}'- 
cephalous race, E. asinus europceus, originally indigenous in the European 
part of the tertiary basin of the Mediterranean ; now found in the south of 
France and on the Mediterranean coasts of Africa. Chiefly used for the pro- 
duction of Mules. Compt. Rend. 1871, Ixxii. pp. 689-692. 
Ruminantia. 
Bos. Les boeufs sauvages des Maures,” by T. Turrell, Bull. Acclim. 
1871, pp. 516-523. [See Zool. Rec. vii. p. 13.] 
'^os sylhetanus. On the Gaur, see Forsyth, ^ Highlands of Central India,’ 
pp. 106 et seqq., 132 et seqq. 
Ovis. Mr. Blyth has critically examined the account given by Ch. Hamil- 
ton Smith of his Bos (P) pegasus. The authors referred to in this account 
have vaguely alluded to very different animals j but the figure given by II. 
Smith in Griflith’s ^ Animal Kingdom ’ (iv. p. 386) represents a very extraor- 
dinary form of Domestic Sheep. A. & M. N. II. 1871, viii. pp. 204-207. 
Ovis ai'ies. On the habits of the Sheep which rendered it a fit auxiliary in 
certain operations of agriculture in ancient Egypt, Roulin, Compt. Rend. 
1871, Ixxii. pp. 317-326. (See also Sus serofa, p. 15.) 
*^iAntilope. On the Antelopes inhabiting Central India, see Forsyth, ^ High- 
lands of Central India,’ pp. 56 et seqq. 
Antilope caudata described by M.-Edwards, Recherch. Mammif. p. 186, 
pis. 22, 22 A, 22 B. — It is the type of a distinct genus, XJrotragus, Gray, A. & 
M. N. H. 1871, viii. p. 371. 
Neotragus saltianus. Note on the skull by Gray, 1. c. p. 141. 
Eamalis pygarga. Note on its scarcity, by Layard, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 625, 
Tragelaphus. Sir V. Brooke has reviewed the history of spekii, angasi, 
and euryceros, determined their distinctive external and craniological cha- 
racters, and figured the last species (pi. 39). P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 482-489, with 
woodcuts of skulls and horns. 
Cephalophus. Dr. Gray has reviewed these Antelopes, and characterizes 
all the species known, P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 688-601. He divides them into three 
groups, Grimmia, Terpone, and Cephalophus j describes two new species, Ce~ 
phalophus melanoprymnus (p. 594, pi. 44) and Cephalophus nigrifrons (p. 598, 
pi. 46), from the Gaboon, and figures the skulls of Grimmia irrorata (p. 590), 
C. melanoprymnus (p. 594), C. sylvicultrix (p. 596), C. rujilatus (p. 597), C. 
nigrifrons (p. 598), C. eoronatus (p. 699), and C. maxwellii (p. 600). C. me- 
lanopnymnus, C. dot'saliSf and C. nigrifrons, figured pis. xliv.-xlvi. 
Camelopardalis. The Giraffe is mentioned in the Old Testament under the 
name of “ Rehem” (Psalm xcii. 10). Rieu, Verhaudl. Schweiz, ntrf. Gesellsch. 
1868, p. 86. ■ 
-^ervus. Forsyth (Highlands of Central India, p. 221) has convinced 
