MAMMALIA. 15 
German in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xli. pp. 76-95, with 6 plates. [See Zool. 
Ilecord, iii. p. 24.] 
>J M. Fatio figures in his ‘ Fnune Siiisse ’ : — Sorcx vtdgaris, pi. 4 ; Sorcxaraneus 
and Icucodon, pi. 6. He proposes for the latter species the name of S. mi- 
crow'us (p. 137). 
sf The peculiar disease of the shin by which Mice and B,ats are affected has 
also been observed in the Shrew. Gray, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 18G9, iv. 
p. 360. 
So7'cx jmhtstris. Neosorcx alhiharhis (Cope) is identical with this species. 
Allen, Mamni. Massacli. p. 211. 
Crocidura alhicauda figured by Peters in Von der Decken’s Beisen, Sseu- 
gethiere, taf. 4. 
Blarina. The species of this genus have been critically revised by Allen, 
1. c. p. 213. 
Talpa. Dr. Fitzinger has compiled a paper entitled ^^The natural family 
of Moles {Talpce) and its species, from critical researches.” Sitzgsber. Wien. 
Akad. 1869, lix, pp. 353-432. 
Scaptochirus moschatm (M.-E. 1867) figured by A. Milne-Edwards, Re- 
cherch. Hist. Nat. Mammif. pi. 17. fig. 4. 
•^^chtnops tniwarti is described as a now'species by Grandidier, Rev. etMag, 
Zool. 1869, p. 337, from Madagascar. 
Carnivora. 
^Dr. Graves 'Catalogue of Carnivorous Mammalia^ lias been 
noticed above, p. 4. 
>^ Prof. Flower has found a valuable character for the arrange- 
ment of fissipedous Carnivores in the form and structure of the 
osseous bulla and parts immediately surrounding it (Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1869, pp. 4-37). He regards this character as more indi- 
cative of affinity than the dentition, the modifications of which 
are mainly adaptive, reappearing in various degrees and com- 
binations in many of the great natural divisions of the order; 
He describes and figures the base of the skull of the majority of the 
genera, and arranges them into three sections, which he proposes 
to call Arefoidea, Cynoidea, and JEluroidea, The first contains 
the families IJrstdcR, Ailuridce^ ProcyonidcBy and Mustelida, the 
ProcyonidcB comprising Cercoleptes, Nasua, Procyon, and Bas- 
saris. The Cynoidea are regarded as the central and most 
generalized form, and consist of the family Canida only. The 
AEluroidea comprise five families, viz. Hyknideey Viverrid( 2 y and 
FelidcBy the CryptoproctidcR filling an intermediate position be- 
tween Felida and Viverridce, and the Protelidce connecting the 
Viverridm with the HycRnidat. Arctictis is shown to be a 
member of the Viverridce. The various groups are arranged in 
a diagrammatic plan (p. 37), showing the cross relationships. 
Felis. Dr. Fitzinger bos commenced the publication of a Revision of the 
forms belonging to the natural family of Oats,” Sitzgsber. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 
