ZOOLOGICAL RECORD 
FOR 1877. 
MAMMALIA. 
DY 
Edward Richard Alston, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 
Among tho works published during the year, attention may bo specially 
directed to Cones’ and Allen’s exhaustive work on tho Noarctic Rodents 
\jnfra^ p. 3], and to tho lattor’s valnablo monograph of tho rocont and 
extinct American Bisons [p. 1]. Flower has reviewed the existing 
Ziphoid Whales [p. 14], Doran has described the auditory ossicles of many 
Mammals [p. 3], and Garrod has further investigated the anatomy of 
the Ruminants [p. 3]. Much has been added to our knowledge oE tho 
interesting fauna of New Guinea and the adjacent islands, new forms 
having been described by Peters & Doria [p. 24], Milne-Edwards 
[p. 24], Gorvais [p. G], E. Pierson Ramsay [pp. 6 & 8], Dobson [p. 10], 
and Alston [p. 8] ; tho most important discovery being tho existence 
of Monotremos beyond tho limits of tho Australian continent [p. 24]. 
In palieontology much work has been done in Europe by Leith Adams 
[pp. 5 & 8], Busk [p. 2], Riitimeyer [p. 6], and Van Beneden [p. 7]; 
in India by Lydekker [p. 5] ; and in America by Leidy [p. 4], Marsh 
[p. 5], and Cope [p. 2]. 
THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Allen, J. A, The American Bisons, Living and Extinct. Mem. Mns. 
C. Z. iv. No. 10, pp. 1-24G, pis. i.-xii. (I87G). Also simultaneously 
issued as Mem. Geol. Surv. Kentucky, i. pt. ii. 
An important and exhaustive monograph, describing the extinct species 
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