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MAMMALIA. 
following species : — Vesperugo borealis y Plecotus auritus, Sorex 
vulgaris, Talpa europcea, Felis tigris, F. uncia, F. lynx, [Hycena 
spelcea), Canis lupus, C. vulpes, C. cor sac, Ursus ai'ctos. Males 
taxus, Mustela zihellina, M.putorius, M. sibirica, Tamias striatus, 
Pteromys volans, Arctomys bobac, Spermophilus eversmanni. 
Castor fiber, Cricetus vulgaris, Arvicola amphibius, H. saxatilis, 
Myospalax laxmanni, Lepus variabilis, Cervus alces, i^Cervus 
euryceros), C. elaphus, C. capreolus, Ovis domestica. Bos bonasus, 
B. taurus, Equus caballus. Bus scrofa, {Rhinoceros tichorhinus) , 
{Elephas primigenius) . 
Bwitzerland. MM. nu Plessis and Combe have given a 
list of 34 Mammals found in the district of Orbe. Bull. Soc. 
Vaudoise Sc. Nat. x. pp. 249-256. 
Sardinia. A. Cauuccio gives a list of 30 Mammalia inhabit- 
ing this island. Att. Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. xii. 1870, pp. 554-562. 
Modena. Bonizzi gives a list of 41 species of Mammals 
(including some extinct kinds) found in the district of Modena. 
Ann. Soc. Nat. Modena, v. 1870, pp. 113-143. 
North America. Mr. II. Brown read a paper on The 
Mammalian Fauna of North-west America at the meeting of 
the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in 
1869. He divides the country to the west of tlie Bocky 
Mountains, north of California, into several regions, for whicli 
we refer the student to the abstract published in the Reports of 
the Association, 1870, pp. 109-111. , 
Nova Scotia. Dr. Gilpin continues his observations on the 
Mammalian Fauna. Proc. & Trans. N. Scot. Inst. Nat. Sc. ii. 
3, 1870, pp. 8-18. This part treats of Ursus americanus, 
Sciurus hudsonius, Pteromys hudsonius, Tamias striatus, and 
Arctomys monax. 
United States. J. A. Allen enumerates 48 species in ^^Notes 
on the Mammals of lowa.^^ Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. xiii. 
1870, pp. I78-I94. 
China. Mr. Swinhoe has some entertaining and instructive 
Zoological notes of a journey from Canton to Peking and 
Kalgan,^^ P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 427-451. The paper abounds in 
ornithological observations, but several Mammals are also men- 
tioned, .as Elaphurus davidianus, Spermolegus evei'smanni, Lepus 
tolai, and Erinaceus dealbatus (sp. n.). 
In a second paper the same author gives a Catalogue of the 
Mammals of China (south of the river Yangtsze) and of the 
Island of Formosa,^^ ibid. pp. 615-653. The number of species 
amounts to 82, and copious notes on most of them are given. 
Hainan. Mr. Swinhoe enumerates, and makes notes on, 21 
species of mammals from this island, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 224- 
239, besides the Deer, of which he treated in a previous paper 
(see Zool. Bee. vi. p. 22), and some others not observed by 
himself, hut mentioned in a Chinese work. 
