4 Mamm. 
MAMMALIA. 
Geomyidce, Sciuridce, Canidce, Felidce^ Equidie^ Chalicotheriidodf Anthra- 
cotheriidm\ Of. also Am. Nat. xiii. p. 131. 
CitEiGHTON, 0. Further Observations on the Formation of the Placenta 
in the Guinea-Pig. J. Anat. Phys. pp. 173-182, pi. xvi. 
Dawkins, W. B. On the Range of the Mammoth in Space and Time. 
J. G. Soc. XXXV. pp. 138-147. 
& Mello, j. M. Further Discoveries in the Cresswell Caves, with 
Notes on the Mammalia by the former. Tom. cit. pp. 724-735. 
Eimer, — . liber die Fortplanzung der Fledermause. Zool. Anz. ii. 
pp. 425-426. [Cy. Fries, infrd^ and Beneke, supra, p. 2.] 
Elliot, D. G. A Monograph of the Felidcv. 
During the year 1879, parts iv. & v. of this magnificent work have 
been issued. [^Felidw.'] 
Finscii, O. Reise nach West-Sibirien im Jahre 1876. Berlin : 1879, 
8vo, pp. xxiii. & 663. 
Many allusions to the Mammalia met with will be found in the text of 
this work, an account of the German expedition to Siberia, in 1876. 
Figures of the Argali, Equus hemionus, &c., are given. 
. Reise nach West-Sibirien im Jahre 1876. Wissenschaf tliche Ergeb- 
nisse. Wirbelthiere. i. Saugethiere. Verb. z.-b. Wien, xxix. 
pp. 115-128 (also separately, Wien : 1879, 8vo). 
Fifty-four species of Mammalia are here recorded as met with, and 
short notes on the localities, &c., of each species, as determined by Dr. 
Peters, are given, [^Cf. Zool. Rec. xiv. Mamm. p. 6.] 
Flower, W. H. On the Seals and Cetaceans of Kerguelen’s Land. Phil. 
Trans, clxviii, pp. 95-100 ; cf. Ann. Sci. Nat. (6) viii. art. 14, pp. 4-7. 
The species noticed are Ogmorrhinus leptonyx, Macrorrhinus leoninus, 
Otaria gazella, Balcena australis, and Glohicephalus melas. 
Forbes, W. A. [See Elephantidm.l 
Fries, S. Ueber die Fortpfianzung der einheimischen Cheiropteren. 
Nachr. Ges. Gott. 1879, pp. 295-298; Zool, Anz. ii. pp. 355-357. 
Although copulation takes place in the autumn, the ova do not become 
fertilized till after hybernation, the semen remaining, as it were, dormant 
during the winter, as already noticed by Van Benedeu & Eimer. [Cf. 
also Beneke and Eimer, supra]. 
Giebel, C. G. Dr. H. G. Broun’s Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier- 
reichs. VI. Abth. v.. Mammalia, Nos. 21-25. Leipzig & Heidel- 
berg : 1879, pp. 417-544, pis. Ixii.-lxxvii. 
Continues the description of the skeleton. [Cf. Zool. Rec. xv. Mamm. 
p. 5.] 
. Die geographlsche Veibreitung dev vorweltlichen Saugethieve im 
Allgemeinen und der Pferde im Besonderu. Z. ges. Naturw. (3) iv. 
pp. 488-494. 
