THE GENERAL SUBJECT. 
Mawun. 19 
Olsson, P. Nya bidrag till kannedomen ora Jeratlands fauna. CEfv. 
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17 species are recorded as occurring in Jemtland. 
Osborn, II. F. [See Rliinocerotidce , Artiodactyla , Marsupialia.'] 
Owen, [Sir] R. [See Thylacoleo carnifex (P lag iaulac idee), Echidna 
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Paladino, J. Sur Pendoth&ium vibratile chez les Mammiferes, et sur 
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Payne-Gallwey, [Sir] R. The Fowler in Ireland ; or, Notes on the 
Haunts and Habits of Wildfowl and Seafowl, including instructions 
in the art of shooting and capturing them. Loudon : 8vo, pp. 503. 
Although apparently, from its title, purely ornithological, this work 
contains a chapter (pp. 313-330) on the distribution of the rarer 
Mammals of Ireland. 
Pelzeln, A, yon. Brasilische Saugethiere. Resultate von Johann 
Natterer’s Reisen in der Jahren 1817 bis 1835. Theil i. Primates , 
Chiroptera , & Carnivora ; Theil ii. Rodentia , Ungulata , Sirenia, 
Edentata , & Marsupialia. Yerh. z.-b. Wien, xxxiii. Anhang. 
The plan of this paper is an extremely useful one, namely, to give 
exact particulars of all the specimens collected by Natterer in Brazil, the 
localities, dates, habits, colours of the soft parts, &c., &c., and Dr. von 
Pelzeln deserves the thanks of workers on Neotropical Mammals for the 
information he has furnished. He has, however, adopted the reprehen- 
sible system of publishing all the collector’s manuscript names for the 
species, one unfortunate bat becotniug thereby possessed of no less than 
nine additional synonyms ; while in another case a new species of bat is 
described merely by the publication of Natterer’s name and notes. 
Moreover, the names heading the synonymy are constantly quite different 
from those generally recognized, without any explanation of the change 
being given, all of which much reduces the value of the paper, and 
implies a serious addition to the already enormous amount of Mammal 
synouymy-work to be done in the future. In all, Natterer sent to Vienna, 
in the course of his ten expeditions, no less than 1179 specimens belong- 
ing to 205 species, a record probably unequalled by any collector. 
[See Phyllostoma chrysosema (Phyllostomatidce), Hesperoniys rattus (Mu- 
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( Dasypodidai ), sp. n.] 
Pestalozzi, T. Das Thierleben der Landschaft Davos. Davos : 1883, 
8vo, pp. 56. 
[Not seen by Recorder ; cf. Zool. Anz. vi. p. 602.] 
Peters, W. [See Pteropodidce.] 
Petterd, W. F. [See Muridce and Dasyuridce.] 
Pfeiffer, L. Ueber Secret- Yacuolen der Leberzellen im Zusammeu- 
hange mit den Gallenkapillaren. Arch. mikr. Anat. xxiii. pp. 22-30 
pi. ii. 
