Mamm . 1 
II. MAMMALIA. 
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R. Lydekker, B.A., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
CONTI 
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Introduction 1 
I. Titles 2 
II. Faunistic Index ... 23 
III. Biological Index . . 24 
IV. Systematic Arrangement 24 
Primates 24 
Chiroptera 26 
Insectivora 27 
INTS. 
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Carnivora .... 
. . . 28 
Rodentia . . . . , 
. . . 29 
Ungulata . . . . 
Cetacea i .... , 
. . . 39 
Edentata 
Marsupialia . . . . 
. . . 41 
Monotremata . . , 
. . . 42 
Multituberculata . , 
. . . 42 
The most important event of the year the Recorder has to notice is 
undoubtedly the completion of Zittel’s “ Palseontologie,” which will, for 
many years, remain the standard compendium of the palaeontological 
history of Mammals. 
In systematic work, the year has been noteworthy for the large 
number of species (whether in all cases valid, it is not for the Recorder 
to say) of recent Mammals that have been described. Among the most 
interesting of these is a new genus of Rodents — the fish-eating Murine 
(Ichthyomys) ; and next to this may be mentioned a new Sminthus from 
Kashmir, and a second species of the African Viverrine genus Nandinici. 
All these forms have been brought to notice by Thomas ; and it may be 
added that the bulk of the new species of the year have been described 
by the latter, Allen, and Matsciiie. Mention must, however, also be 
made of the new Stag from the neighbourhood of Lhasa, described by 
Blanford. A prominent place in the year’s systematic work is likewise 
occupied by Forsyth Major, who has not only made a complete 
revision of the classification of the Squirrel family, but has likewise 
described the curious, and apparently but recently exterminated, Malagasy 
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