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and Edentata. He regards it as the type of a separate suborder 
of Pachyderms, which may be called Gliriformiaj^ on account 
of its numerous resemblances to the Rodentia. Mem. Ac. 
Sc. St. Petersb. 1869, xiv. no. 2, pp. 127, with three plates. 
Dr. Gray has recognized throe species brought home by Mr. Jesse from 
Abyssinia — Ilyrax ferrugineiis^ m oratus, and luteogaster, var.— A new species 
from Angola is named Jlyrax hocagei. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1869, iii. 
p. 242. 
From an examination of numerous examples of Ilyrax collected by him- 
self in Abyssinia, Mr. Blanford has come to the conclusion that these animals 
vary much in colour, texture of the fur, and the extent of the space between 
the incisors and molars in the upper jaw; therefore he does not admit the 
genus Euhyrax. He distinguishes four Abyssinian species : 1. jfiT. abyssi- 
nicus (H. & E.); 2. H. capcnsis? = H. abyssimcus (Gray); 3. H. hrucei 
(G.) = II. alpini (G.) = II ferrugineus (G.) = II irrot'atus (G.) ; 4. H. 
dongolanus (H. & E.) = II. rujiceps (H. & E.) = H. hurtoni (Gray). Proc. 
Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 638-642. 
\Eqnm. M. Lenormant states that the ass was used as a domestic animal 
by the ancient Egyptians since the oldest times whence monumental repre- 
sentations are preserved, but that the horse was not introduced into Egypt 
before the 19th century b.c. (Compt. Rend. 1869, Ixix. p. 1256), — an observa- 
tion which is in accordance with the original geographical distribution of the 
two species, Milne-Edwards, ibid. p. 1259. M. Faye adds biblical evidence 
with regard to the presence of the horse in Egypt and Syria, ibid. pp. 1281- 
1283, 1379. 
M. Sanson has continued his researches into the domestic races of the 
liorse; he distinguishes what he terms eight species from North-western 
Europe alone. Compt. Rend. 1869, Ixix. pp. 1204-1207. 
Dr. George has examined the wild asses distinguished by authors fi^m 
Equus hemionus, and reviewed the literature relating to them. He comes to 
the conclusion that the Hemippus, Gour, Ghor-Khur {A. indicus, Sclater), 
Koulang, Dshiggetai, Kiang (A. equioides Or polyodon^ Hodgson), and A. 
cquuleiis are local races of one species, Equus hemionus — a view held previ- 
ously by Brandt and Milne-Edwards. Equus nsinus is found at present in a 
wild state in North Africa only. Ann. Sc. Nat. 1869, xii. pp. 5-48. Skulls 
and other anatomical details are iigured on pis. 1-4. 
M. A. Milne-Edwards describes a cross between E. hemionus and a mare. 
Bull. Soc. Zool. d’Acclim. 1869, p. 180. 
Ruminantia. 
Bos taurus. On the abnormal condition of the skull of European examples 
similar to that of a South- American race called “niatos,” C. Dareste, Compt. 
Ilend. 1809, Ixviii. pp. 733, 734, and Sanson, ibid. pp. 834-836.-ANote on 
malformed hoofs from a specimen of the feral cattle of the Falkland Islands, 
by Dr. Murie, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, p. 59. 
\Antilope. Dr. Fitzinger has written a paper, in which he gives, first, an 
account of the systematic arrangements of the antelopes by previous writers, 
and, secondly, diagnoses of the various genera and subgenera, adding the 
names of the species. Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1869, lix. pp. 128-182. 
