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ZOOLOGICAL LITEIlATUllE, 
^ Dr, Gray has also added notes on skulls from Desolation Island, which be- 
long to Euotaria niffrescens (/. o. p. 264). Arctocephalus schisthypero'es (Turner) 
is A. delalandii (p. 265). 
'^Phoca. Prof. Kinderg describes in detail the remains of Phoca gronlandicat 
harbatuy foatida, and vitulina found in glacial deposits in Central Sweden. 
(Efvers. Vet. Akad. Fdrhandl. 1869, pp. 13-61. 
■ Otariajubata. Dr. Miirie has reported on a collection of specimens made 
by a keeper in the Zoological Society’s service in the Falkland Islands. lie 
notices the changes of colour in both sexes, and the sexual differences in the 
skull, and size and length of fore limbs. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pp. 100-109. 
On pi. 7 male, female, and young are represented in a not very artistic 
manner. 
'^iMorunga proboscidea. Its extinction in the Falkland Islands recently 
confirmed. Gray, /. c. iii. p. 400. 
Rodbntia. 
•4] Soiurus rigidus and Sc. hoffmannif from Costa Rica, Frantzius, Wiegm. 
Arch. 1869, p. 266. Prof. Peters regards now the former as a variety of Sc. 
coUiceiy and the latter as one of Sc. cestuans. 
^ Sperinophtlm mongoltctis figmed by A. Milne-Edwards, Recherch. Hist. Nat. 
Mammif. pi. 17. fig. 1. 
Anomalurus fulgenSy sp. n.. Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist, 1869, iii. p. 467, 
from the Gaboon. 
H Castor fiber. Messrs. Green Sc Brown have published their observations 
made on the Beaver in Western America. Journ. Linn. Soc. Zoology, x. 
1869, pp. 361-373. 
Mas rattus and musculus common in Costa Rica. Frantzius, Wiegm. Arch. 
1^9, p. 270. 
Mas musculus. J. von Fischer attempted to breed a variegated variety by 
pairing grey and white mice. He was not successful, the young being always 
either uniform grey or uniform white. Zool. Gart. 1869, p. 341. 
A black mouse, common in a tobacco-manufactory at Poschiavo, in the 
Canton Grisons, and feeding on tobacco, has been described as a possibly di- 
stinct species, Mus poschiavinusy by Fatio, Faune Suisse, p. 207, pi. 7. 
^Mus islandicus. See above (p. 10), under Iceland. 
Hesperomys leucopus. When disturbed, the mother transports the young, 
the latter adhering to the outside of the thighs of the parent. Caton, 
Amer. Natur. iii. 1869, p. 119.-^On the synonymy of this species and some 
doubtful others, see Allen, Mamm. Massach. p. 227. 
^ Hypogeo7nySy g. n., Grandidier, Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1869, p. 338. Incis. f j 
mol. |. Toutes lea molaires sont form^es de trois lames simples, obliques et 
penchdes en avant ; elles out des racines ; I’ant^rieure est la plus grande. 
Leur train de derriSre surpasse d’une maniere remarquable celui de devant, 
de sorte qu’ils peuvent faire d’enormes sauts. Comme les vrais rata, ils 
n’ont qu’un rudiment de pouce aux pieds de devant. Les angles sont tres- 
robuates. H. antimenuy sp. n., 1. c. p. 339, from Madagascar. 
Siphieus. M. A. Milne-Edwards’s paper on the Mole-Rats (see Zool. 
Record, v. p. 21) is translated in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. .1869, iii. p. 157. 
Siphneus psilurus. Skull and skeleton figured by A. Milne-Edwards, Re- 
cherch. Hist. Nat. Mammif. pis. 9 A ajid 9 B. 
