ZOOLOGICAI, LITERATURE. 
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^ Arvicold mystacinus, sp. ii., De Filippi, I, c. p. 334, from "Western Persia, 
A yariety of A, amphibitts is also very common there. 
Fiber zibethicus. Capt. Bulger mentions instances of the courage of the 
Musquash. Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G6, p. 682. 
Hystriv malabarica, sp. n., Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 352, pi. 16, 
fi*om Cochin. The author establishes this species on the ground of its ex- 
ternal characters, as well as of those taken from the skull, which is figured, 
lie enumerates six species of Hystriv. 
^Frethizon t'ufescens, sp. n., Gray, ibid. p. 321, pi. 11, from Columbia 3 it may 
prove to be the type of a distinct subgenus, Echinoprocta. 
Capromys mdanurusj sp. n., Poey, Monatsber. Ak. Wiss, Berk 1864, p. 384, 
from Cuba. 
^ Lagomys. Dr. Stoliczka has published a very good description of a species 
found by him in the eastern provinces of Ladak, and believed to be the 
Jj. mrzonice (Hodgs.) j it ranges to an altitude of about 19,000 feet. Journ. 
As. Soc. Beng. 1865, p. 108. 
Jamlus labradorius. Its skeleton described by Giebel, Zeitschr. gesammt, 
Ntrwiss. 1865, xxv. pp. 272-274. 
Sciuriis vidgaris. On its habits see E, B. Alston in Zoologist, 1865, pp. 9481- 
9484 } its partiality for truftles noticed by A. Newton, ibid. p. 9560. 
EDENTATA. 
Dr. Gray has published a revision of the genera and species 
of Insectivorous Edentata in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, pp. 359-386. 
This group offered to him fewer difficulties and fewer novelties 
than those previously revised by him ; and as the pgper itself will 
be consulted by all who may take up the study of these animals, 
it will suffice to indicate the general arrangement, with special 
notice of some more important additions to our knowledge of 
those points in which the author differs from his predecessors. 
He continues to follow the example of Cuvier in uniting the 
Monotremata with the Edentata. The groups, genera, and 
species are characterized by diagnoses; the synonymes are 
added, and the skulls of several species described and figured. 
The author distinguished 31 species, which are referred to 17 
genera. The arrangement is the following : — 
I. Cataphracta. : 
Earn. 1. Manididce. 
1. ManiSf witli M. longicauda and M. tricusjris, — M. quad ridacty las 
(Thomps.) and M. trulontata (Focillon) being regarded as synonyms of tlio 
latter species. Skulls of this species are figured (pp. 364, 365). 
2. PholidotuSj with Manisjavaniea (Fisch.) = ilf. aspera (Sundev.) == 
M. guy (Focillon), young ? 3 M. dalmannii (Sundev.) 3 Pholidotus indicus:=.M. 
pentadactyla (L.) = J/. crassicaudata (Gray) 3 P. africanus (sp. n., p. 368, 
. pi. 17), from the river Niger, For the two last species a gubgeneric name, 
PhatageSy is proposed. 
3. Smutsia (g. n., p. 369) : Munis iemminehii. 
