THE GENERAL SDI3JECT, 
ATaynm. 3 
(JouES, E. Fur-bearing Animals : a Monograph of North American 
Mustelido3. U. S. Geol. Survey of Territories (Hayden) ; Miscel- 
laneous Publications, No. 8. Washington : 1877, 8vo, pp. 348, pis. xjt. 
Contains also accounts of other North American and exotic fur-bearing 
animals. 
. Precursory Notes on American Insectivorous Mammals, with descrip- 
tions of new species. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr. iii. pp. 631-653. 
Several new sub-genera and species are described {^Soricidm]. 
& Allen, J. A. Monographs of North American Rodentia [Rep. 
U. S. Geol. Surv. xi.]. Washington : 1877, 4to, pp. 1091, pis. vii. 
A valuable and exhaustive series of monographs of the Nearotic families 
of Rodents, including the extinct forms ; the number of species is very 
greatly reduced. An appendix by T. Gill and E. CoiiES contains a 
very full bibliography of N. American Mammals and of all works on 
Mammals published in that Continent. 
Dallas, W. S. [See Duncan, P. M.] 
Dan FORD, C. G., & Alston, E. R. On the Mammals of Asia Minor, 
P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 270-281, pi. xxxi. 
Thirty-eight species are enumerated, of which one \_Muridaf\ is 
described as new. 
Doran, A. On the Comparative Anatomy of the Auditory Ossicles of 
the Mammalia. P. R. Soc. xxv. pp. 101-108. 
. Morphology of the Mammalian Ossicula auditus. P. L. S. xiii. 
(abstract), pp. 185-189. 
These papers are preliminary to an important memoir, which will bo 
published in full in the Tr. L. S. 
Duncan, P. M. Cassell’s Natural History. Vol. i. London : 1877, 
4to, pp. 384, 
The first volume of a popular illustrated work, edited by P. M. 
Duncan ; the Quadrumana are treated of by the Editor and J. Murie, the 
Lemuroida by J. Murie, and the Chiroptera by W. S. Dallas. 
Farer, — . Dor Bau dor Iris des Monschen und der Wirbelthiere, mit 
besonder Bcrucksichtigung ihrer Muscalatur. Leipzig : 1876. 
[Not seen by the Recorder; cf. Arch, f* Nat. 1877, ii. p. 58.] 
Feilden, H. W. On the Mammalia of North Greenland and Grinnell- 
Land. Zool. 1877, pp. 313-321, 353-361. 
Notes on the Mammals observed during Nares’s Expedition ; 13 species 
are enumerated, viz., 4 land Carnivores, 3 Pinnipedes, 2 Cetaceans, 2 
Ungulates, and 2 Rodents. 
Fitzinger, L. F. Der Huud und seine Racen. Wien : 1876. 
[Not seen by the Recorder ; cf. Arch. f. Nat. 1877, ii. p. 80.] 
Garman, W. S. On the Variation in the Colours of Animals. P. Am. 
Ass. 1876, pp. 187-204. 
Remarks on the effect of physical causes ; Mammals are treated of at 
pp. 197-203. 
