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Buhaltis. Mr. Blyth shows that the horns of the Buffalo of North-eastern 
Africa differ from those of the Cape Biitliilo sufliciently in size and form to 
disting-uish the former at least as li. cciffer, var. ccquinoctialis. Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1866, pp. 371-372, figs. 1, 2. He also adds a full figure of B. brachy- 
ceros, p. 373. 
Ccphalophus hreviccps^ sp. n., Gray, Proc, Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 202, pi. 20, 
from West Africa (?). 
Cervus. Dr. W. Soemmering has published a description of the change 
and development of the horns of a stag (C. elaphus) in the Zoological Gar- 
dens in Frankfurt, and illustrated it with very accurate drawings (Zoolog. 
Garten, 1866, pp. 41-47, pis. 1-6). Dr. Max Schmidt (ibid. pp. 47-61) 
has added his observations on the change of the horns of various other species 
kept in those gardens, viz. C. tarandus, dama, elaphus^ canadensis, aristotelis, 
hippelaphus, qyorctnus, axis, virginianus, and mun^ac. 
Cervus capreoliis. Prof. KoUiker describes skulls with canine teeth. 
Wiirzb. ntrwiss. Zeitschr. vi; 1866, pp. 82-83. 
'I Cervus macrotis et C. columhianus. Dr. Gray has formed of these deer a 
distinct genus, which he calls Bucerms. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, xviii. 
p. 338. 
Cervus pudu. Mr. Sclater figures the head of a male specimen with a pair 
of small straight horns. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 104. 
Cervus mariannus (Desm.). The antlers are figured by Fraser, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1866, p. 367. 
Elaphurus is a most interesting new genus of Deer, disco- 
vered by M. David at Pekin, and described by M. A. Milne- 
Edwards in Compt. Bend. 1866, pp. 1090-1092 (Ann. & Mag. 
Nat. Hist, xviii. pp. 71-72), and more fully in Nouv. Arcli. 
du Museum, Bulletin, ii. pp. 27-40, pis. 4-6. It is distin- 
guished by a long tail furnished with long hairs towards the 
end — and by very peculiar horns, which have no anterior basal 
antler, but a very long posterior branch, the end of which is 
subpalmated, being divided into several short points. Elaphurus 
davidianus, n., is of the size of a large stag, and kept in an 
imperial park near Pekin. 
CETACEA. 
Dr. J. E. Graves ^Catalogue of Seals and Whales^ contains, 
as I have stated above, an account of all the species known, 
and a complete systematic arrangement of these animals. A 
part of the researches of the author were published in the Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1864 and 1865 ; and abstracts of these publications 
were given in the two preceding volumes of the Becord.^ The 
two suborders Cete and Sirenia are, of course, retained, the 
former being divided into Mysticete and Denticete. The further 
subdivision of the Mysticete is essentially the same as given in 
one of the former papers (see Zool. Becord, i. pp. 32-35) ; 
however, the genus Macleayius, founded on the character of a 
separate atlas, proves to have this vertebra soldered to the others. 
