MAMMALIA. 
3 
See Zool. Reeord, v. p. 3. Two other parts (4 & 5) have 
been published in 18(>9; they contain the continuation of the 
Mammalian fauna of China^ and more especially the monograph 
of Si])hneus. 
' Beneden, P. J. van, et Gervais, P. Osteographie des Cetaces 
vivants et fossiles, &c. Paris. Text 4to, Atlas fol. 
We have given a notice of this grand work in Zool. Record, v. 
p. 5. Parts 4 to 8 have been published of the text, as well as of 
the ])lates, containing tlie account oi' Me ff apt era and Balanoptera, 
and of the fossil forms belonging to Baleena and the two other 
genera mentioned. 
Peters, W. C. H. Saugethiere gesammelt von Baron C. C. 
von der Decken auf seinen Reisen im aquatorialen Ostafrica, 
pp. 1-10, with 4 plates. 
This forms an appendix to C. C. Von der Decken^s * Reisen in 
Ost- Africa,^ Lcip/^. 18G9, 8vp, of which a preliminary abstract 
was given by the author in 18G6 (see Zool. Record, iii. p. 11). 
The general work is divided into a narrative and a scientific part, 
the whole being edited by O. Kersten after the death of the 
traveller. The narrative contains numerous accounts of East- 
African animals, but they are composed in so artistic a manner 
that one cannot know which are original observations made by 
tlie traveller and taken from his MS. notes, or what composition 
by the editor and his coadjutors. The scientific parts only are 
of interest to zoology, one of them being the Report of the 
Mammalia by Peters. 
Wallace, A. R. The Malay Archipelago : the land of the 
Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise. A narrative of travel, 
with studies of Man and Nature. Second edition. London, 
18G9. IGmo. Vol. i. pp. 312 ; vol. ii. pp. 341. 
Mr. Wallace has the great merit to have been the first to 
throw light into the zoogeography of the Malayan archipelago, 
and to reduce to something like systematic order the mass 
of facts relating to it. All future researches, be they con- 
firmatory of or controverting the views put forth by Mr. 
Wallace, will make his work the starting-point. Prom a study 
of Birds principally, and also of Mammalia, he comes to the 
conclusion that five groups of islands must be distinguished in a 
zoogeographical point of view : — 
1. The Indo-Malay Islands, comprising the Malay peninsula 
and Singapore, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra. 
2. The Timor group, with Timor, Flores, Sumbawa, and 
Lombock. 
3. Celebes, with the Sula Islands and Bouton. 
4. The Moluccas, comprising Burn, Ceram, Batjan, Gilolo, 
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