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MAMMALIA. 
Hyopotamidai:. 
W. Kowalevsky describes in detail the osteology ot the Miocene 
forms of this family ; his present paper treating principally of the limb 
bones. Phil. Tr. 1873, pp. 19-94, pis. xxxv.-xl. 
'i DiplopuSyg.n. (f OSS.), Kowalevsky, allied to Hyopotamus^hui didactyle. 
Type, D. aymardi, sp. n. ; Eocene of England. Tom. cit. p. 30. 
Tkagulid.®. 
Hypisodua^ g. n. (foss.), E. D. Cope, allied to the next genus and to 
Leptomeryx. Type, H. minimus^ sp. n. ; Miocene of Colorado. P. Ac. 
Piiilad. 1873, p. 419. 
^Typertragidua^ g. n. (foss.). Cope. Typos, U. calcaratus and U. tricos- 
tatus, spp. nu. ; Miocene of Colorado. Tom, cit. p. 419; Bull. U. B, 
Geol. Surv. 1874, p. 27. 
'iStibarm, g. n. (foss.), E. D. Cope. Probably allied to the above. 
Type, S. obtusilobus, sp. n. ; Miocene of Colorado. Pal. Bull. No. 16 ; 
Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. 1873, p. 603. 
TragulohyuSj.g. n. (foss.),P. Gervais, with a continuous series of grind- 
ing teeth, of which the molars resemble those of Xiphodon and the pre- 
molars those of Aiitliracotherium. Type, T'. inermis, sp. n. ; phosphate 
chalk of Quercy — the only part known is a mandible. J. Zool. iii. 
pp. 286 & 287. 
Cekvidj], 
J. D. Caton writes on the structure and casting of the antlers of Deer. 
Am. Nat. vii. pp. 348-353. 
L. J. Eitzinger has begun a voluminous review of the Deer in a style 
similar to his former revisions of other families [c/. Zool. Rec. iv. p. 28]. 
He divides them into 16 genera, of which 4, Strongyloceros, Do7'yceros, 
Elaphoceros, and Nanelephus appear to be new. The names Macrotis 
and Furcifer are suppressed, having already been used in Chiroptera and 
Reptilia, and Otelaphus and Creagroceros are proposed as substitutes, 
SB. Ak. Wien, Ixviii. pp. 332-362, Ixix. pp. 519-604, Ixx. pp. 239-333. 
Alces malchis. On the date of its extinction in Silesia ; Dr. Goppert, 
JB. schles. Ges. 1873, p. 47 ; W. Strieker, Zool. Gart. 1874, p. 196. 
Cervus dama. L. H. Jeitteles points out that instead of having been 
introduced from the Mediterranean co^gfries, the Fallow-Deer was 
spread in pre-historic ages as far north as Denmark and England ; ibid. 
pp. 288-297. P. L. Sclater translates his articles with notes ; Nature, 
xi. pp. 71-74, and W. Boyd Dawkins dissents from his conclusions, tom. 
cit. pp. 112 & 113 {cf. tom. cit. pp. 210 & 226 (1875)]. A doe with double 
hind-feet dropped fawns similarly deformed for several successive years ; 
E. Ward, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 90. 
Cervus caspicus, sp. n., V. Brooke, is a provisional name for a Rusine 
Deer from Persia ; the horns are figured. To?n. cit. p. 42. 
Cervus euopis, sp. n., Swinhoe, is adopted as a provisional name for a 
Deer from North China, allied to C. siha ; P. L. Sclater. Tom. cit. p. 151. 
