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MAMMALIA. 
Sciurus. Mr. Swinhoe includes in his list of South Chinese Mammals four 
Squirrels, one of which is Sciurus castaneoventris (Gray) = S. erythrceus 
(Swinhoe, 1862), and probably = S. lokriah (Hodgs.) == S. lokrioides (Hodgs.)= 
S. erythrogaster (Blyth). P. Z. S. 1870, pp. G33, 634. 
Sciurus leuco-umbrinus (RUpp.) = S. setosus (Gray), Blanford, Observ. 
A^ss. p. 279. 
"Sciurus castaneiventris and S. m^clellandi. Notes on Hainan examples. 
Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 231, 232. 
^ciurus vidgaris. Hoffmann and Weyenbergh’s memoir on its osteology 
and myology has been noticed above, p. 5. « 
Sciurus dorsalis (Gray) varies in coloration, and is from Nicaragua, not 
from Oaraccas. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1870, p, 670. 
Pto'omys 2)cctoraliSf sp. n., Swinlioe, ihid. p. 034, Formosa. — Ptcromys 
alburufus, sp. n., A. Miluo-Edwards, Compt. Bend. 1870, Ixx. p. 342, Thibet. 
Castor Jiber. “Notes on. Beaver Dams,” by A. Agassiz, Proc. Bost. Soc* 
Nat. Hist. xiii. 1869, pp. 101-104. In Newfoundland. H. Reeks, Zool. s. s. 
pp. 1953-1961. 
Mus, Mr. Swinhoe enumerates 12 species from Southern China, P. Z. S. 
1870, p. 635 j one of them is Mus alexandrinus. 
Mus canna and M. losea, spp. nn., Swinhoe, ibid, pp. 636, 637, Formosa. — 
Mus ningpomsis, sp. n.. Id. ibid. p. 637, Ningpo. 
Cricetus nigricans occurs in Bulgaria. Alfred Newton, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 331, 
pi. 26. 
Nesomys, gen. nov., Peters, Sitzgsb. Ges. nat. Fr. Berl. 1870, p. 64. Al- 
lied to Hesperomys. Upper lip with a naked longitudinal groove, but not 
cleft. Otherwise very like Mus externally. Toes 4 — 6 j tail long, amiulated 
and scantily hairy. Incisors smooth j molars 3/3, as in Hesperomys. Neso- 
7nys rufus, sp. n., Madagascar. 
Aixticola subterranea found in Austria. Jeitteles, Verh. Z.-B. Ges. Wien, 
1870, Sitzgsber. p. 45. 
liathyeryus splendens. Notes. Blanford, Observ. Abyss, p. 279. 
Pectinator spekii. Notes. Blanford, ibid. p. 281. 
Ilystrix hodgsoni appears to occur in Hainan, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, 
p. 233. [Is this the same as that afterwards described as H. suberistatus P] 
Hystrix suberistata, sp. n., Swinhoe, ibid. 1. c. p. 638, Southern China. 
Lepus. On some peculiarities of the bones of the skull and the osseous 
parts of the organ of hearing, R. Himstedt, Arch. Anat. Phys. 1870, 
pp. 437-463, pi. 11. 
'i^Lepus hainanus, sp. n., Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 233, pi. 18, from Hainan. 
Lepus sinensis, described. Swinhoe, ibid. p. 639. 
Lepus cegyptius, Qeoiii\==L. abyssiniciis, Gray: Blanford, Observ. Abyss, 
p. 273. — L. tigrensis (Blanford) redescribed, ibid. p. 276. 
Lepus palustris. “ Observations on the Marsh-Hare,” E. Coues, Proc. Bost. 
Soc. Nat. Hist. xiii. 1869, pp. 86-93. The skull is also described. 
Edentata. 
Manis dalmanni. Notes on Hainan examples, Swjnhoe, P. Z.- S. 1870, 
p. 236. — Described in detail. Id. ibid. p. 650. 
Chlamydophorus truncatus. “ On some points of osteology of the Pichi- 
ci^go,” E. Atkinson, Journ. Anat. & Physiol, v. 1870, pp. 1-16, pi. 1. 
