THK GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Mamm. 3 
Cope, E. D. Report upon the Extinct Vertebrata obtained in New 
Mexico by parties of the Expedition of 1874. Wheeler’s Rep 
Surv. W. of 100th Mer., iv. [1877], pt. 2, pp. 72-370, pis. xxxiii.- 
Ixxxiii. 
In this important memoir many of the remarkable Eocene and Miocene 
forms already briefly characterized by the author are fully described 
and figured. [See “ Bunotheria ” (p. 12), Carnivora^ Prohoscidea^ Perisso- 
dactyla, Artiodactyla, and Glires.~\ 
. Descriptions of New Extinct Vertebrata from the Upper Ter- 
tiary and Dakota^ Formations. Bull. U. S. Surv. Terr. iv. 
pp. 379-396. 
Includes some new genera and species of fossil Mammals [Rhinoceron- 
tid(B, OreodontidcRy Cervidce, Cdmelidm^ GUres (gen. incert. sed.), Brady- 
podidce]. 
CouES, E., & Yarrow, H. C. Notes on the Natural History of Fort 
Macon, N.C,, and Vicinity (No. 4). Mammals. P. Ac. Philad. 1878, 
pp. 21 & 22. ' 
Supplementary notes to Goues’s former paper [c/. Zool. Rec. ix, p. 5]. 
Creighton, C. On the formation of the Placenta in the Gruinea-Pig. 
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Cunningham, D. J. Nerves of the Fore-limb of ,tlie Thylacine and 
Cuscus. J. Anat. Phys. xii. pp. 427-433. 
. Intrinsic Muscles of the Hand of the Thylacine, Cuscus, and 
Phascogale. Tom. cit. pp. 434-444. 
. Intrinsic Muscles of the Mammalian Foot. Op. cit. xiii. pp. 1-16. 
These papers contain , details of the myology and neurology of the 
manus and pes in Mammals, and especially in the Marsupials. 
Davies, W. On a Collection of Pleistocene Mammals dredged off the 
Eastern Coast [of England]. Geol. Mag. 1878, pp. 97-100, 443 & 
444, pi. xii. 
Dawkins, W. Boyd. British Pleistocene Mammalia. Part A. Pre- 
liminary Treatise on the Relation of the Pleistocene Mammalia to 
those now living in Europe. (Pp. i.-xxxviii.) Pal. Soc. xxxii. 
An introduction to the chapters of this work which have already been 
published by the Palaeontological Society. 
. [See Cermdcc.'\ 
. [See Duncan, P. M.] 
Dobson, J. E. Catalogue of the Chiroptera in the Collection of the 
British Museum. London : 1878, 8vo, pp. 567, pis. xxx. 
A complete monograph of the order, all the known forms being in- 
cluded, and the families, genera, species, and varieties fully described. 
400 species are recognized, of which 17 are new (Pteropodid^y Nycteridce, 
VespertilionidcBy Phyllostomidoe). 
