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MAMMALIA. 
Bos chinensis. Observations on the South China Cattle. Swinhoe, 
P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 648-650. A bull and the skull are figured. 
^ Antilope. ‘‘ Sur la domestication de quelques especes d’antilopes au temps 
de Fancien empire 5gyptien/’ F. Lenormant, Compt. Pend. 1870, Ixx. 
pp. 413-416. 
Antilope. The species observed by Mr. Blanford (Geol. & Zool. Abyss.) 
were : — Antilope sbmmermgii (p. 260), A. dorcas (p. 261), A. heisa (p. 262), 
A. oreotrayus (p. 265), A. montana (p. 266), A. madoqua (p. 267), A. saltiana 
(p. 268), A, strepsiceros (p. 270). The horns of A. dorcas, and for com- 
parison those of A. hennetti, A. arahica, A. suhyiitturosa, and A. spekei, are 
figured, pi. 1. 
Antilope maxwelli and A. pygmcea. Notes on the skulls. Giebel, Zeitschr. 
gos. Ntrw. 1870, xxxv. pp, 43-47. 
\Capricornis sioinhoii. Notes. Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 647. 
Saiga tartarica. Dr. Murie has given a most complete account of the 
organization of this animal, which he regards as an Antilopine Sheep.” 
P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 451-503. This excellent memoir is illustrated by many 
woodcuts. 
Antilocapra americana. Dr. Murie has worked out the anatomy, and given 
a detailed description of its external and internal organization. Ibid. pp. 334- 
368, with woodcuts. 
Mr. Sclater divides the Cervidce ” into 8 genera, and enumerates 23 Old- 
World, and 17 New -World species of the genus Cervus. P. Z. S. 1870, 
pp. 114-116. 
Cervus alecs. Prof. Brandt has come to the conclusion that the Ellts of 
both hemispheres, as well as the fossil remains, form only one species. Bull. 
Ac. Sc. St. P5tersb. 1870, p. 254. 
Cervus alces. A pair of Spike-horns ” figured. J. A. Allen, Amer. Nat. 
1870, iv. p. 443. On its distribution in New England, ibid. pp. 535-536. 
^ Dr. Murie describes and figures a case of malformation of 
one horn, the frontal base of which had been injured. P. Z. S. 1870, 
pp. 611-014. 
Cervus alfredi, sp. n., Sclater, ibid. p. 881, pi. 28, Malayan peninsula P 
Cervus pseudaxis (= C. taivanus, Blyth) and Cervus swinhoei. Notes on 
these two species, Swinhoe, ibid. pp. 044 & 646. 
Xenelaphus leucotis [Zool. Bee. vi. p. 22]. Dr. Philippi states that this 
deer is not the Huemul of Chili {Cervus chilensis), nor likely to^ occur in 
Chili. Arch, fiir Naturgesch. 1870, pp. 46-40. The author directs his critical 
remarks against a paper by Dr. Gray published in a popular periodical, and 
appears to be unacquainted with that published in P. Z. S. 1860, p. 406. 
Hydropotes inermis, gen. et sp. n., Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, pp. 80-02, 
pis. 6 & 7 (animal and skull), from the Yangtsze-river districts in China. 
This Deer approaches Moschus in the small size of the lachrymal fossa, long 
canines in the male ; no horns or frontal protuberances. 
Traguhis meminna. Its placenta shows the same characters as that of 7'. 
stanleyanus. A. Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sc. Nat. xiii. 1870, art. 6. 
SiRENIA. 
Ilalicore. Contributions to its osteology. E. Krauss, Arch. Anat. Phys. 
1870, pp. 625-614. 
