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Z00L0QICAI4 ;.|T^3IIATURE. 
World are by one and the same fauna of ]\IampaaU 
and Birds, and tl^at, witli the exceptioTi of the Edentata and 
Quadmmana, the Old-World genera are nearly al^vays repre- 
sented by ppeeifie types in the dilferent regions eonstituting the 
Old World. Partieular attention is paid to the fauna pf Algeria. 
Beminding his readers that it once was connected with Europe, 
and separated from the rest of Africa by a sea, he proceeds to 
demonstrate that (like the Mexican Mammalia) those species 
Avhich Algeria has in common with Europe have a shorter and 
thinner pelage than their European representatives, but, on the 
other hand, that the pelage is longer in such of the Algerian 
species as have their homologues^’ in Africa proper. He 
states it as a fact, that all the European types in Algeida are of 
smaller size than the original races in Europe (that, indeed, the 
other characters used to distinguish Algerij^n from European 
species are pot of very great impprtanc^, ^nd that there is a 
harmonic postetablie betweep t^^is fact apd the circumstance 
of their having been confined to a very narrpw and liniited 
territory after the separation of Algeria frppi Europe had taheit 
place. 
Island^ of lew^s. Prof. Duns enumerates 1|3. specips as occurring in or on 
the shores of this islaud : it woiild appear to he inhabited by eight Land- 
Mammals only, ^viz. Yospertilio pipistrelliiSf Lutro, vulparis, Mttrtes folna 
[qua3re ahicUnii], Mus muscuT/iis and documami/S, Lepus timidiXis and vartabtlis, 
and Cervi,{s elaphus. Prop. Roy. Soc. Edinb. v. p. 616. v 
Russia, Gt. Belke enumerates 31 species of Mammals as inhabiting the 
district of Radomysl, in the Gouvernement of Kief. The list includes Gido 
and Castor. Bull, Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1866, xxxix. p. 491. 
Palestine. The Bev. II. B. Tristram has given a report on 
the Mammals in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, pp. 84-93. The list 
contains 80 species, inost of which were collected during his 
most successful expedition ip 1864. He observes that the 
Mammalian fauna contains a much larger proportion of African 
species than any other branch of the fauna of the country, 
Twenty-three species, may be considered strictly African or 
Arabian; all the others belong tq tlie types of the Mediterranean 
basin, though several species are peculiar, There is scarcely 
any trace of Indian forms. The list includes 2 Pachyderpis, 
16 Buminants {Cei'vus elaphus ^ tarandus et aloes being extinct), 
3 Solidungulates, 29 Bodents, 19 Carnivores (including the Hi on 
and Leopard), 4 Insectivores, 9 Bats. The name of each species 
is accompanied by notes on its distribution over the country, 
^ East Africa. Prof. Peters emuuerates 29 species of Mammals collected 
by tlie late Baron von der Decken on tlie coasts of Eastern Africa. A species 
of Miniopteru^ and one of Crocidura are new. Monqtsber. Ak. Wiss. Berlin, 
1866, pp. 884-887. 
Madagascar. Prof. Scblegel, in a list of Manimals collected by Messrs, 
