MAMMALIA. 
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^ Cervus dama. According to Jeitteles the fallow deer was distributed all 
over Europe ^ during the diluvial period and in still later times. Mittheil. 
anthropol. Ges. Wien, 1872. 
Cervus axis. A case of abnormal dentition noticed by Donitz. SB. ntif, 
Freund. Berl. 1872, p. 64. 
Cervus savannarumy <5, figured by Sclater, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 600, pi. 69. 
Cervus alfredi is from the Philippine Islands. Sclater, 1 . c. p. 24. 
Cervus superciliaris described by Schmidt, Zool. Gart. 1872, p. 74. 
Cervus capreolus. On monstrous horns, Schrockinger-Neudenberg', Verb, 
z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1872, p. 223. 
Capreolus pygargus. Note by Dr. Gray, A. & M. N. IP 1872, x. p. 407. 
Cervus. Dr. Gray now believes he has received the true Gu^mul of Mo- 
lina {Huamela leucotis) j the Deer formerly described under this name [see 
Zool. Record, vi. p. 22, vii. p. 14] is a distinct animal, which may be called 
now Xenelaphus anomalocera. Gray A. & M. N. H. 1872, x. pp. 445, 446. 
Elaphodus cephalophus is indicated as a new genus, intermediate between 
Cervus and the Muntjacs, from Moupin, by A. Milne-Ed wards, Nouv. Arch. 
Mus. vii. Bull. p. 93. n. 
Cervus muntjac. Notes on a living example, Schmidt, Zool. Gart. 1872, 
pp. 22-26. 
Ccrvulus reeyesi. Skull of male figured by Gray, Cat. Rum. Mamin, fig. 8. 
•J Ccrvulus sdaleri is described as a new species from Ningpo by Swinhoe, 
P.Z.S. 1872, p. 814. 
Cervulus lacrymans is indicated as a new species from Moupin by A. Milne- 
Edwards, Nouv. Arch. Mus. vii. Bull. p. 93. 
Hydropotes. Sir V. Brooke has examined and figured the skull, P. Z. S. 
1872, pp. 6^2-626 ; he is inclined to leave it in a group of Cervidee by itself. 
— Note referring to its natural history by Comely, Bull. Soc. Acclim. 1872, 
p. 791.— Notes by Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 816. 
-^Hycemoschus. Its myology described by Chatin. Ann. Sc. Nat. xv. 1872, 
pp. 32, pis. 7-9. 
SIRENIA. 
*Ehytma borealis. Notes relative to Dr. Alex. Brandt’s paper on the 
skin of Rhytina [see Zool. Record, viii. p. 18] by Dr. Murie, A. & M. N. H. 
1872, ix. pp. 306-313, pi. 19. 
Manatus americanus. A very elaborate monograph ^^On the Form and 
Structure of the Manatee ” by Dr. Murie has been published in Trans. Zool. 
Soc. viii. 1872, pp. 127-202, pis. 17-26. — Dr. F. Krauss describes the pelvic 
bones. Arch. Anat, Phys. 1872, pp. 257-292, Taf. 9 and 10. 
CETACEA. 
Prof. J. F. Brandt has published a preliminary notice of a 
memoir (on which he is engaged) on a new classification of the 
Balsenoidea, including the extinct genera. He does not adopt 
the elaborate subdivisions proposed by recent authors, but ad- 
mits only the following families and genera (Bull. Ac. Sc. St. 
P^tersb. xvii. 1872, pp. 113-124) 
Fam. 1. BALJENiDiE : gen. Balcma. 
Fam. 2. Bal.®nopterid.®. 
