MAMMALIA. 15. 
F. Pollen and D. C. van l)am in Madagascar^ eiiumorates species, Proc, 
Zool. Soc. 1866, pp. 419-420/ 
Burmdh. Prof. Peters enumerates and describes two Bats £^nd three 
Squirrels from a collection made by Oapt. Beavan at Moulmein, in Proc, 
Zool. Soc. 1866, pp. 426-429, and t^iree Mice collected at Maubhoum, ibid, 
p.558, ' ' 
Formosa. Mr. Swinhoe has translated from the Chinese that part of the 
18th chapter of the Tai-wan-foo-che (statistics of Taiwan) which treats of 
the birds and beasts of this island (Journ. North-China Branch P. As. Soc, 
no. ii. 1866, pp. .39-62). Its contents are very similar to those which we find 
in some of tlio natural-history compilations of the middle f\gP9-, The trans- 
lator also observes that the list is not only very incoipplete, but the accounts 
of the several kinds of animals are most imperfect. Still he has learned 
from it that there are several animals in the island with which he is unac- 
quainted. 
^ Aru Islands. A collection made by the late Von Bernstein in the Am 
Islands contained six Mammals, which are described by Prof. Schlegel in 
Nederl. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1866, pp. 850-368, and will be mentioned sub- 
sequontly. 
'^Labrador. A list of Vertebrates observed at Okak in Northern Labrador 
by the Bev. S. Weiz, during a seventeen years’ residence, has been published 
by Dr. Packard, with annotations, in Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. x. p. 264. 
About 48 Mammalia are enumerated, with the addition of the Esquipiaux 
narnes. 
Trinidad. Prof. Peters enumerates nine species of Bats from a eollectipn 
made by Dr. W. Huggins at San Fernando. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 430. 
V Vancouver Islands. A list of species given by Mr. Lord has been menr 
tinned above (p. 6), 
aUADRUMANA, 
M. Gratiolet^s monograph of Troglodytes aubryi, which 
was mentioned in the ^ ReeoiTP of the preceding year (vol. ii. 
p. 22), has appeared inNouv. Arch. Mus. d^Hist. Nat. 1866, ii. 
pp. 1-264, illustrated by seven plates. The manuscript was left 
in a finished state by the author, and is edited by M. Alix, 
who assisted Gratiolet in his researches into the anatomy of 
this Ape. It contains a most detailed description of the osteo- 
logy and myology, and of most of the soft parts ; the brain was 
unfortunately not preserved in the specimen. M. Alix has added 
an introduetory chapter on the history of previous labours on 
the anatomy of Anthropoid Apes, and a concluding chapter, in 
which he states that T. aubryi must he referred to the Chim- 
panzees and not to the Gorilla, that its distinction from man is 
evident even in minute, apparently unimportant details, and 
that there is a manifest relation between its external organiza- 
tion and mode of life. 
^ Bimia, Prof. Giebel has compared the skulls of Man and 
Orang; find after having gone through the well-known details 
of the differential characters, he arrives at the eonelusion that 
