RECORD 
OF 
ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
MAMMALIA 
BY 
Albert Gunther, M.A., M.p., Ph.D. 
A. Separate Publications. 
Monograph of the Bats of North America. By H. Allen. 
Washington : Smithsonian Institution, 1864, June. 8vo. 
pp. 85, with numerous woodcuts. 
The author describes in this valuable memoir twenty species 
contained in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution, of the 
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and of the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge (Mass.). Three are new. 
The synonymy is carefully compiled; and in order to enable 
the student to decide for himself with regard to forty-one of the 
names, considered by Mr. Allen as synonyms, but made use of 
by various authors to denominate as many species, the original 
descriptions are reproduced in an appendix. Every genus and 
species is illustrated by woodcuts representing the head, ear, 
skull, or interfemoral membrane. 
Catalogue of Mammalia in the Collection of the Australian 
Museum. By Gerard Krefft. Sydney, 1864. 16mo. 
pp. 134. 
The Australian Museum of Sydney is evidently rapidly in- 
creasing in extent and importance under the care of its energetic 
Curator. The publication of a catalogue of the contents of a 
collection is always a proof of its healthy state, and, as we have 
ample evidence to show, the surest road to further development. 
1864. [voL. I.] B 
