ZOOLOGICAL RECORD 
FOR 1878. 
MAMMALIA 
BY 
Edward Eichard Alston, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 
Dobson’s exhaustive “Catalogue of the Chiroptera” [p. 3], the first 
parts of Elliot’s magnificently illustrated “ Monograph of the Felidce ” 
[p. 4], and Feilden’s appendices to Nares’s “Voyage to the Polar Sea” 
[p. 6], may be specially noticed among the separate works published in, 
1878. Attention may also be directed to Allen’s views on geographical 
distribution [p. 2], to the palsBontological labours of Riitimeyer [p. 19] 
aUd Lydekker[p. 17], to Cope’s descriptions of New Mexican fossil Mam- 
mals [p. 3], and to his further elaboration of his groups o:^ “Bunotheria ” 
and “ Amblypoda” [pp. 12, 16]. Harting has described the hitherto un- 
known placentation of the Sirenia [p. 5], Brooke has revised the arrange- 
ment of the Cervidce [p. 18], and Trouessart has begun the publication of 
what promises to be a very useful general catalogue of Mammals [p. 8]. 
Of the various orders, the Chiroptera and Artiodactyla appear to have 
attracted more attention than any of the others. 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Adams, A. Leith. Report on the History of Irish Fossil Mammals 
(Abridgment.) P. R. Irish Ac. (2) hi. pp. 89-100. 
Remains of 10 species have been found, of which 7 are now extinct ; it 
is considered probable that the early Mammals entered Ireland from 
South-Western Scotland. 
1878. [voL. XV.] B 1 
