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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Sorex vidgaris continues to be common in, and without, the houses on Reno 
(Finmarken), 70° lat. N. Malmgren, Wiegm. Arch. 1864, p. 64. (CEfvers. 
Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Forhandl. 1864, p. 127.) 
Hhinomtis (Murray). Dr. Gray has examined the typical specimen on 
which Mr. Murray had founded this genus (Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edinb. 
1860, p. 159), and considers it not distinct from Sm'eXy and the species — Rhi- 
nomics soncoides — probably identical with Sorex myosurm. Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1864, p. 67. 
Felidas. 
Felis tiyris. On the ravages committed by tigers at Singapore, see 
Martens in Zool. Garten, 1864, p. 382. The same traveller narrates the fight 
of a tiger with a buffalo, ibid. p. 418. 
Felis onca. Dr. Crisp has discovered a large patch of agminated crypts in 
the caecum of the Jaguar. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 271. 
Felis variegata (Wagn.) and Felis par dm (Wagn.). Dr. von Martens is 
inclined to regard the Javan race as distinct from the African, because it 
has the tail longer and the legs shorter. He also proves that the ancients, 
although using two names (which are forms of the same root), TrnpSaXts and 
'iuiv6t)p^ did it indiscriminately, without intending to fix these two names to 
two distinct animals. Zool. Garien, 1864, p. 281. 
\Felis poliopardus (Fitz.). Dr. v. Martens reminds us of an observation 
made by his father, that an animal belonging to this form, born in a mena- 
gerie, was a hybrid between the Jaguar and the so-called F. melas. He 
also mentions the tUIFerent dark -coloured varieties of some of the largo 
species of this genus j they are generally found in the mountainous parts of 
a country ; as regards F. melas, it is a fact well known in Java, that black 
and yellow panthers are found in the same litter. Zool. Garten, 1864, p. 280. 
Leoiiardus brachyio'us, Mr. Swinhoe makes some fru'ther remarks on 
specimens of this species, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 380. 
Felis uncia. Dr. R. Meyer received from an importer of furs two skins 
which had been bought of a Russo-Northameiican Company. He describes 
and figures both, after having determined one as Felis irhis (Miill.) and the 
other as Fehs vane^a^a (Wagn.). Zool. Garten, 1864, pp. 40-46, with two 
plates. Dr. Fitzinger (ibid. p. 200) agrees with Dr. Meyer as regards the 
determination of F. irhis, but considers the second individual to be a mere 
variety (perhaps of age) of the other. However, Dr. Meyer, in a reply 
(p. 231), does not adopt this opinion, but is still inclined to consider them as 
distinct species, whatever the proper name of his F. variegata should be. — 
The Recorder has compared the figures with Himalayan specimens in the 
British Museum (F. uncia') ; although there are slight differences in the 
markings, they agree in other respects with the species of Dr. Meyer j but 
their tail is comparatively shorter. 
Felis {Leopardm) jacohita, sp. n., Comalia, Rendicont. Istit. Lombard, di 
Sc. e Lett. 1864, i. p. 241. Felis villosa, cinerea, subtus et intus albida j 
maculis brunneis pallidis plenis rotundatis aut ovato-elongatis, seriatim 
dispositis, per latera corporis descendentibus, maculis ventralibus rubiginosis 
aut Isete fulvis, artubus externe nigro fasciatis, interne parce nigi'o maculatis. 
Cauda elongata, occiput attingente, annulis latis, perfectis, 0 brunneis. — Hab. 
in Bolivia circa Potosi et Humahuaca. — Total length \ length of tail 
