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Canids. 
Canis familiaris. Prof. Giebel repeats his belief in the existence of dif- 
ferent species among the races of dog, and describes the skeleton of a young 
example of some small variety. Zeitscbr. gesammt. Ntrwiss. xxiv. p. 468. 
Canis dingo. On the antiquity of the Dingo, see Mr. ICi-efft’s observations, 
reported on p. 2. ^ 
I Canis cerdo and Canis swinJioiiy fig. in Zoolog. Sketch, by Wolf & Sclater, 
vol. ii. 
^ Canis vtdpes. Notes on the skull, by Giebel, Zeitschr. gesammt. Ntrwiss. 
xxiv. p. 46^ 
M. Aucapitaine has observed the black-tailed and black-bellied varieties 
of fox in Corsica, the latter being more common in cpld and exposed loca- 
lities than in warm and sheltered places. However, Bonaparte’s Vtdpes 
mclanogaster is merely a variety of the type, the black colour being assumed 
ill winter, and passing into white during the spring. The foxes of Corsica 
arc generally larger than those of Southern Europe, and very subject to 
madness. Eev. et Mag. Zool. 1865, p. 3. 
^ . Mus^'elid.®. ' . 
Ill tlic Bccord of last year we gave an aecount of two 
synoptieal monographs— -of the VwerYid (2 and Ursidca - — by Dr. 
J. E. Gray. They are followed this year by a similar one of 
the Zool. Soe. 1865, pp. 100-154. The groups, 
genera, and speeies are eharaeterized by a diagnosis, and their 
synonymy is worked out. The author, agaiti, direets attention 
to the form, size, and number of the bald parts of the feet as ah 
exeellent systematic character. He is acquainted with 75 spe- 
cies (many forms described by others as species being regarded 
by him as varieties) , which he refers to 27 genera and 8 
tribes. The arrangement is the following : — 
I. Acanthopoda. 
Feet rounded; toes short, curved , the last joint hent tip; claws short, compressed, 
acute, retractile. 
Tribe 1. Mustelina. Head oblong. Toes slightly webbed. Tail cylin- 
drical. Terrestrial. 
A. Figitigrade. Soles of the hind feet hairy, with four bald pads in front ; 
anal glands developed; tubercular grinder short, transverse. 
1. 3Zarics (Cuv.), with nine species, subdivided into three subgcnera, 
viz. Martes (type M. abietum'), PeJkania (type M. pcnnantii), and Foina 
(type M. foina). One of the species is [described as new : Martes japonica 
(p. 104). The author has found that the Asiatic Sable {M. zihellina) agrees 
with the European Pine-Marten {M. abietum') in having the last upper tuber- 
cular grinder nearly twice as long on the inner as on the outer side, whilst 
the same tooth is only somewhat longer on the inner than on the outer side 
in the American Sable {M. amencana). 
2. Putorius, with four species. ' 
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