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OsB'ORN, Henry Fairfield. The Congo' expedition of the American Museum of 
Natural History. Introduction. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 39, 
pp. xv-xxvii. August 1, 1919. (An account of the expedition, its routes, 
and a summary of the collections made, together with a most excellent map 
showing the localities visited.) 
PococK, 'R. I. The classification of the mongooses (Mungotidse). Ann. and 
Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 3, pp. 515-524. June, 1919. (The family Mun- 
gotidiB is formally recognized and a key to its subfamilies and genera is given.) 
Robinson, Herbert C., and C. Boden Kloss. On five new mammals from 
Java. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 4, pp. 374-378. December, 
1919. (New forms of Pithecus [Pygathrix of recent authors], Rattus^ and 
Mycteromys.) 
Royal Zoological and Acclimatisation Society op Victoria. Fifty-fifth 
annual report and report of the annual meeting of the society, for the year 
1918. Melbourne, 1919. (List of animals living in the gardens. An orang- 
utan has now been in the Melbourne collection for fifteen years, and is prob- 
ably eighteen years old.) 
Scott, H. H., and Clive E, Lord. Studies of Tasmanian Cetacea. Part II. 
Royal Soc. Tasmania, Pap. and Proc., 1919, pp. 23-32, 1 plate. July 24, 1919, 
Shufeldt, R. W. The racoons of North America. Amer. Forestry, vol, 25, 
pp. 1531-1536, 5 figs. December, 1919. (Popular account of raccoons and 
their allies.) 
Spreadborough, William. Notes on some of the more common animals and 
birds of the Canadian Rockies. Canadian Alpine Journ., vol. 10, pp. 51-68. 
1919. (Interesting field notes on bears, marmots, ground-squirrels, pikas, 
wood rats, chipmunks, and squirrels.) 
Swarth, Harry S. Some Sierran chipmunks. With notes on photography of 
small mammals by Joseph Dixon. Sierra Club Bull., vol. 10, pp. 401-413, 
3 plates. 1919. 
Taylor, Walter P. Suggestions for field studies of mammalian life-histories. 
U. S. Dept. Agric., Dept. Circ., 59, pp. 1-8. September, 1919. (Mailed to 
all members of the American Society of Mammalogists.) 
Taylor, Walter P. A new pocket gopher from western Washington. Proc. 
Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 32, pp. 169-171. September 30, 1919. (Describes 
Thomomys douglasii tacomensis from Pierce County.) 
Thomas, Oldfield. Two new gerbils from Sinai. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 
ser. 9, vol. 3, pp. 559-560. June, 1919. (Describes Gerbillus floweri and 
G. honhotei.) 
Thomas, Oldfield. The method of taking the incisive index in rodents. Ann. 
and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 4, pp. 289-290, with one figure. October, 
1919. 
Thomas, Oldfield. The types of the mammals described by M. Fernand Lataste, 
Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 4, pp. 350-354. November, 1919. 
(Lataste collection now in British Museum, and types and lectotypes are 
here listed.) 
Weidman, Fred D. Report of the laboratory of comparative pathology. Forty- 
^ seventh Ann. Rep. ZooL Soc. Philadelphia, pp. 18-25. 1919. (Data on 
autopsies held at the Philadelphia zoological gardens.) 
Whiting, P. W. Inheritance of white-spotting and other color characters in 
cats. Amer. Nat., vol. 53, pp. 473-482. November, 1919. 
