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ZOOLOOrCAli LITERATURE. 
Ashango-Land/ London, 1867, 8vo, pp. 601, which contains the writer’s 
more recent observations on the Gorilla^ Chimpanzee, Potamogale, and PhoU- 
dotus africanus. 
^South-western Africa, Prof. Peters enumerates seven species of Chiroptera 
collected at Otjimbingue. Monatsher. Ak. Wiss. Berl, 1867, p. 234. 
nJI Madagascar. The work on the Mammals- and Birds of Madagascar by 
Messrs. Schlegel & Pollen has been mentioned above (p. 2). Beside the 
zoological descriptions of the new or imperfectly known species, M. Pollen 
has given his notes on the habits or geographical distribution of Lichanotus 
hrevicaudatus (p. 20), Avahis laniger and Lemur varms (p. 21), Lemur catta 
and Chiromys (p. 22, rather unimportant), Galidia elegans and concolor (p. 23), 
Centetes (p. 24), Pteropus edwardsii (p. 25), Taphozous leucopterus and Uysopes 
(p. 26), Mus (p. 27), Sus larvatus (p. 28), and Cetaceans (p. 29). 
4 M. Grandidier enumerates 39 species of Mammalia collected by him in 
Madagascar, Bev. et Mag. Zool. 1867, p. 313. 
Auckland Islands. Students of the fauna of these islands ought to refer to 
a narrative by Capt. Th. Musgrave, ‘ Castaway on the Auckland Isles,’ Lon- 
don, 1866, 16mo, which contains occasional notes on the few animals observed 
by the author. 
"^Nova Scotia. Dr. Gilpin has continued his very interesting observations on 
the Mammalia, Proc. & Trans. Nov. Scot. Inst. Nat. Sc. ii. 1867, pp. 8-16. 
This part contains the account of the Mustelidce. 
4 United States, Arizona. Dr. Elliott Coues has given a very interesting ac- 
count of the Mammals of this territory. He enumerates about 70 species, 
adding his observations on their habits. A squirrel is described as new. 
Amer. Natur. i. 1867, pp. 281-292, 351-363, 393-400, 631-541.— A list of 
28 species with the systematic names has been published by the same author 
in Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1867, pp. 133-136. 
QUADBUMANA. 
Mr. St. G. Mivart lias pujblislicd a memoir ^ On the Appen- 
dicular Skeleton of the Primates,' of which an abstract is given 
in Proc. Boy. Soc. 1867, p. 320, and which has appeared in 
Philos. Trans, clvii. pp. 299-429, pis. 11-14 : — 
The author begins by mentioning the principal variations found in the 
order Primates, as to the absolute and relative strength of the pectoral limb 
with and without the maniis \ and then, taking each bone separately, describes 
the modifications undergone by each in all the genera of the order, as also 
the relative size of the segments and bones of the limb compared to each 
■other and to the spine. The pelvic limb is then similarly treated of, and, in 
addition, its segments and bones are compared with the homotypal segments 
and bones of the pectoral limb. The author after this reconsiders the ques- 
tion as to the use of the terms “ hand ” and foot,” and the applicability of 
the term Qudrumanous ” to Apes and Lemuroids. He opposes the position 
lately assumed by Dr. Lucae (see Zool. Record, ii. p. 20), that, both anato- 
mically and physiologically, the pes of apes is more like the human hand 
than the human foot. Tables of the dimensions and proportions of the limbs, 
their segments and bones, are then given, exhibiting the variations presented 
in these respects throughout the whole series of genera. The author then 
