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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
by Prof. Peters, who has lately had an opportunity of examining speci- 
mens. Monatsber. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1866, p. 286. ^ 
Ennaceus lihycus. Prof. Giebel has published a description of this hedge- 
hog and of its skeleton, comparing it with that of the common European 
species. Zeitschr. gesammt. Ntrwiss. xxvi. 1866, pp. 1-7. 
Tupaia splendidala^ sp. n.. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 822, pi. 12, 
irom Borneo. 
Sorex r&miftr. Mr. Hogg discovered this Shrew between Norton and 
Billingham, and notices its difterences from 8. fodiens. Nat. Hist. Trans, of 
Northumberland and Durham, i.* 1865, p. 136. 
A Ci'ossopus fodiens. Mr. N. L. Austen has published some notes on the 
habits of this Shrew. It is readily caught in traps baited with small frogs, 
and feeds greedily on live small fish. The author says that C. remifer is a 
distinct species. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 619. 
' Sorex {Crocidura) fumiyatus, sp. n., De Filippi, Viaggio in Persia, p. 343, 
from Tiflis and Teheran. 
Tcdpa europcea, Voigtliinder states that he had seen in one nest twenty- 
one young of the same size. Sitzgsber. Isis Dresden, 1864, p. 231. 
A Chrysochloris. Dr. Gray states, fr’om a comparison of numerous examples 
and their skulls, that, besides the Ch. aurata, only Ch. villosa (Smith) can 
be maintained as a distinct species, and that the other forms distinguished 
by authors under various names should be reunited with the former. Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 678. ' 
EeLIDtE. 
Felis leo. Mr. Blyth mentions instances of the appearance of Lions in 
parts of India where they had been supposed to have been long extermi- 
nated. Nat. Hist. Eeview, 1866, p. 463. 
^Felis bengalensiSf fig. in Zoolog. Sketch, by Wolf and Sclater, vol. ii. 
Felis mexicana (Sauss.). M. de Saussure thinks that it is most probably 
identical with F, canescens (Swainson), but that the F. ocelot (II. Smith) is 
distinct, Bev. ot Mag. Zool. 1865, p. 257.3 
A Felis jacohita. For the diagnosis of this species see the preceding volume 
of this Becord, p. 18. M. Cornalia gives a more detailed description and 
figure in Mem. Soc. Ital. Sc. Nat. 1865. 
^Felis catus. Notes on the skull, by Giebel, Zeitschr. gesammt. Ntrwiss. 
xxiv. p. 466. 
4 Felix lynx, fig. in Zoolog. Sketch, by Wolf and Sclater, vol. ii. 
* VlVERRID^. 
^Viverra schlegelii (Pollen), Schlegel, Ned. Tydschr. Dierk. iii. 1865, p. 78, 
fr’om Mayotte and Nossi-Faly (Comoro Islands). 
X Viverricula malaccensis, fig. in Zool. Sketch, by Wolf and Sclater, vol. ii. 
\Artictis hinturong, fig. in Zoolog. Sketch, by Wolf* and Sclater, vol. ii. 
* The ^ Natural History Transactions of Northumberland and Durham ’ 
‘are a continuation of the ^ Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field 
Club’ under a different title, being, in fact, the Proceedings of the Natural 
History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne,” 
incorporated with those of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club. 
