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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
biting Palestine, except so far as the genus or group is alluded 
to in Seripture. 
The Reptiles are treated in the same manner ; and eonsiderable 
pains have been taken to examine the seven Hebrew words ap- 
plied to various species of the ophidian order, and to identify each 
with existing species of the country. 
As no fishes are specifically named in the Bible, the allusions 
to the subjects of fish and fishing are classified under 30 heads, 
and each passage examined, with merely an enumeration of some 
of the more remarkable forms. 
The student of natural history will find in the work an exa- 
mination of all the facts of natural history known to or recorded 
by the ancient Hebrews, and a comparison of their knowledge 
with the researches of modern science, while the Biblical student 
will find every name occurring in the Hebrew text explained, and 
every allusion illustrated which bears on natural history, with a 
copious index of many hundred texts referred to. False transla- 
tions of our version are corrected, and unknown names, as 
behemoth,^'’ leviathan,^^ Pygai'g/^ and fabulous creatures, as 
satyr,"*^ unicorn,^^ are definitely assigned to ascertained crea- 
tures of the country either existing or extinct. 
Although accounts of Biblical natural history have been at- 
tempted by previous writers in this country as well as on the 
Continent, none can be compared to this admirable work of Mr. 
Tristram, as regards either its completeness or the knowledge of 
the author, who, as is well known, has made a most successful 
expedition into the Holy Land, and brought together the most 
extensive collections which ever reached Europe. We understand 
that already a second edition is in course of preparation. 
Fatio, V. Les Campagnols du Bassin du Leman. B^le et 
Geneve, 1867. 8vo, pp. 78, with six coloured plates. 
This little but well-executed work on the Field-mice of Geneva 
is published by the Association Zoologique du Leman. 
Jeitteles, L. H.' Ueber einige seltene und wenig bekannte 
Saugethiere des sudostlichen Deutschlands. Separat-Ab- 
druck aus dem vierten Programm der n. o. Landes-Ober- 
realschule zu St. Polten. St. Polten, 1867. 8vo, pp. 36. 
[On some rare and little-known mammals of South-eastern 
Germany.] 
Bischoff, Th. L. Ueber die Verschiedenheit in der Schadel- 
bildung des Gorilla, Chimpanse und Orang-Outang, vorziig- 
lich nach Geschlecht und Alter, nebst einer Bemerkung 
iiber die Darwin'sche Theorie. Munchen, 1867. 4to, pp. 94, 
with 22 plates. 
[On the differences of structure in the skulls of the Gorilla, 
Chimpanzee, and Orang-Outang, chiefly those of sex and age, 
with remarks on Darwin's doctrine.] 
