CARNIVORA. 
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molars and molars than the normal number. One skull is mentioned of 
a street-dog from Jaffa, which has an additional posterior molar on each 
side, both above and below, making in all 46, a close approach to the 
number found in Otocyon. 
Cams lupus. On its distribution in Asia ; Laugkavel, Z. wiss. Gcogr. 
iii. p. 220. 
Cams dingo. On the. convolutions of its cerebellum ; N. de Miklouho- 
Maclay, P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. vi. p. 624, 1882. 
Catiis hodophylax. Notes on this species ; D. Brauns, Chrysanthemum, 
i. p. 66, 1881. 
Cams familiaris , var. nov. laobetianus , A. T. de Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. 
Philom. (6) vii. p. 9, Senegambia. 
-]Canis hercynicus , sp. n. (foss.), Woldricli, SB. Ak. Wien, lxxxiv. i. 
p. 246. 
Cards microtis, sp. n., P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 631, AmazoDS. 
A Vulpes edwardsi , sp. n., A. T. do Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. Philom. (6) 
vii. p. 8, Senegambia. 
Amphicyon ambiguus , var. n. brevis , H. Filliol, Bull. Soc. Philom. (6) 
vii. p. 15, Quercy. 
Cynodon ayrnardi , sp. u. (foss.), id. 1. c. p. 12, Quercy. 
Procyonidas. 
Procyon lotor : on the muscles of its limbs; H. Alleu,P. Ac. Philad. 1882, 
p. 115. Compares the myology of this animal with that of Felis domestica. 
Bassaricyon : note on the species of this genus; M. Huet, N. Arch. 
Mus. (2) v. p. 1, 1882. The author is inclined to consider B. alleni as a 
synonym of B. gabbi ; and, furthermore, influenced by the external 
resemblance of these animals to the Kinkajon, he would reduce Alien’s 
distinct genus to the position of a subgenus of Cercoleptes. 
Mustelid M. 
^ Mustcla ; on the skulls of the species of this genus ; R. Hensel, Nova 
Acta Ac. L.-C. Nat. Cur. xlii. p. 127 [1881]. A most important contribu- 
tion to our knowledge of the variations to which the skulls of these 
animals are subject. The author gives descriptions, measurements, and 
excellent figures of large series of each species, and shows what differ- 
ences are due to age, sex, &c., and what to specific distinctness. 
Mustela nigripes recorded from Texas ; E. Coues, Am. Nat. xvi. 
p. 1009. 
AMustela lcrejcii , sp. u. (foss.), Woldrich, SB. Ak. Wien, lxxxiv. i. 
p. 201. 
Lyncodon patagonicus. This rare animal was obtained in the interior 
of Northern Patagonia, and is shortly described by A. Doering (see 
supra , p. 6). 
Meles taxus : its past and present distribution in Scotland ; J. A. 
Harvie Brown, Zool. (3), vi. p. 1. 
