54 Mamm. 
MAMMALIA. 
[Nehring, A.] Ueber die Form der unteren Eckzahne bei den Wild- 
schweinen, sowie uber das sog. Torfschwein ( Sus palustns , Rfiti- 
meyer). SB. nat. Fr. 1888, pp. 11-16, woodcut. 
Discusses and figures the contour of the lower canine in various existing 
Suidce ; and concludes that Sus palustris is merely a variety of S. scrofa. 
. Ueber die Gebissentwicklung der Schweine, inbesouders fiber 
Yerfrfihungen und Verspatungeu derselben, nebst Bemerkungen fiber 
die Schadelform frfihreifer und spatreifer Schweine. Landw. Jahrb. 
1888, 54 pp., 15 woodcuts. 
An elaborate account of the development of the dentition of the 
domestic and wild races of Sus scrofa , with figures of the different stages, 
and tables giving the date of appearance of the individual teeth. It is 
shown that while there is a great general constancy in the date of the 
teeth-changes, yet there are races having a tendency either to an accelera- 
tion or retardation of this development. Figures are given showing 
cranial peculiarities in these two races. Observations are also recorded 
in the skull and dentition of other species of the genus. Reviewed in 
Biol. Centralbl. viii, pp. 237-240, by W. Wilckens, and in Zool. Gart. 
xxix, pp. 190-192. 
Sanson, A. Sur l’Origine des Cochons Domestiques. J. de PAnat. 
Phys. xxiv, pp. 201-213. 
A reply to the conclusions arrived at by Nohring in the papers cited 
above. It is concluded that the Pigs termed Sus celticus , S. ibericus, and 
S. scrofa are absolutely specific types ; and that while the two first have 
been domesticated, the third has remained wild. Consequently, domestic 
swine are not wild swine that have been tamed. 
Tuckerman, F. Note on the Papilla foliuta and other Taste Areas of 
the Pig. Anat. Anz. iii, pp. 69-73. 
Describes the structure of the taste-bulbs in the tongue of the Pig. 
Sus leuoomystax. [See Schaff, supra , p. 19.] 
t Plutygonus alemanii, n. sp., A. Duges, vide supra , Pleistocene, Mexico, 
t Bothrolabis suhcequans , n. g., E. D. Cope, P. Am. Phil. Soc. xxv, 
pp. 66 & 67 ; type, Palceoohcerus subcequans , Cope, Miocene, U.S.A. 
+ Bothrolabis rostratus, n, sp., Cope, t. c. p. 77, ibid. 
+ Hyotherium scemmerringi , described and figured by A. Hofmann (supra, 
p. 9), from Styria, 
7 . sirenia. 
a. HALITHERIIDiE. 
iDesmotylus hesperus , n. g. & sp., O. C. Marsh, Am. J, Sci. (3) xxxv, 
pp. 94-96, woodcut, Tertiary, California. 
8 . CETACEA. 
Bolaw, H. Walthiere. In G. Neumayer’s Anleitung zu Wissenschaft- 
lichen Beobachtungen auf Reisen in Einzel-Abhandlungen. Berlin ; 
8vo, 2 vols, ii, pp. 363-372. 
Directions for preserving specimens of Cetaceans, and hints for the 
