THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
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x\in. no. 1, 1872, pp. 168, with a map and five plates. The 
author gives an account of the physical geography of the 
country, and of all the circumstaticcs connected with the loeality 
in which the body of the Mammoth w^as found. On pp. 37-42 
he enumerates 22 species of Mammalia collected by him, among 
them Pteromys volans, JEyoceras montanus, and Moschm mos- 
chiferus. 
Denmark. Prof. Steenstrup mentions the following mam- 
malian remains from Danish Kitchenmiddens : — Bos primu 
genius (skeleton, pi. 6), Bos bison, Cervus alces, C. tarandus, 
C. elaphus, C. capreolus {C. giganteus), Bus scrofa, Canis lupus, 
C. domesticus, Ursus arctos, Felis catus, F. lynx, and Castor 
fiber. Bull. Congres Internal. d’Archeol. prdhist. en 1869 : 
Copenh. 1872, pp. 135-174. 
Austria. In a paper entitled Die vorgeschiehtliehen Alter- 
thiimer der Stadt Olmiitz und ihrer Umgebung,^^ and published 
in Mittheil. anthropol. Ges. Wien, 1872, pp. 95, Prof. Jeitteles 
describes remains of Cervus elaphus and C. dama, Lepus cuni- 
culus. Bus scrofa, palustris, and domesticus, > Bos taurus, Capra 
hircus, Ursus arctos, and several varieties of Dog. 
Bicily. Prof. P. Doderlein gives a sketch of the vertebrate 
fauna of Sieily. He enumerates about 60 mammals now found 
in the island, and, by comparing this fauna with that of the 
quaternary fauna, indieates the physical changes which must 
have taken place sinee that period. Ann. Soc. Mod. vi. 1872, 
pp. 60 . 
Nova Beotia. Dr. Gilpin has continued his observations on 
the Mammalian Fauna [see Zool. Rcc. vii. p. 2], Proc. & Trans. 
N. Scot. Inst. Nat. Sc. 1872, iii. pp. 46-61 and pp. 109-125. 
These parts treat of Lepus americanus, Cervus tarandus, and 
Cervus alces. In conclusion, the author gives a list of the Nova- 
Scotian Mammals. 
United Btates. Dr. Elliott Coues has published Notes on 
the Natural History of Fort Macon, N.C., and vicinity. No. 1,^^ 
in Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc; Philad. 1871, in which he enumerates, with 
notes, 18 Mammalia, pp. 12-18. , 
China and Tibet. A Report by the Abbe David of his travels 
in the western provinces of China is published in Nouv. Areh. 
Mus. vii. (1872), Bull. pp. 75-100, giving a list of 110 Mam- 
mals colleeted or observed by himself north of the Yangze- 
kiang, of which more than 40 are referred to new species 
by A. Miln e-Edwards, ^vho has added very brief notes to those 
not previously described. The detailed descriptions of the species 
discovered (which will be noticed in the special part of this 
Record) are in ^ Rech. Mammif.’ {supra, p. 2), accompanied by 
magnificent plates. 
Notes on Chinese Mammalia observed near Ningpo,^^ by R. 
SwiNHOE, P. Z. S. 1872, pp. 813-818. 
