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In Barbados, a Commission was appointed on September 25, 1911, to take evi- 
dence with a view to determining in what districts of the island rats have in- 
creased and are damaging the cane crops, and to take such steps as may be neces- 
sary to ensure that a proper number of mongooses be sent from those districts to a 
person to be appointed to examine the contents of the stomachs of 100 mongooses, 
with a view to ascertaining whether they are of much use in the destruction of 
rats.” 
‘‘The report concludes with th*e following: ‘We are of opinion that the benefit 
to the cane crops derived from the presence of the mongoose is so great, that a 
stop should at once be put to their destruction, and we therefore recommend that 
the Mongoose Destruction Act of 1904 be repealed.’ 
As an appendix to the report, figures were given to show the number of rats 
and mongoose killed and recorded since the Acts came into force, and up to 
October, 1911. The number of rats killed and paid for during the period 1908-9 
to 1911, was 56,578, while the figures for the mongoose during the same period 
were only 33,974.”. 
The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Assembly in 1917 
came to the conclusion that the operations against the mongoose ought to be 
continued under the provision of the Mongoose and Rat Destruction Act, 1909, 
but nothing is said about the destruction of rats. 
—G. S. Miller. 
Allen, Glover M. Dogs of the American aborigines. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zook, 
vol. 63, pp. 431-517, plates 1-12. March, 1920. (History, origin, and de- 
scriptions of the breeds of American aboriginal dogs; with remarks on the 
origin of the domestic dog, its specific status, and the crossing of dogs with 
wild species of Canidse.) 
American Bison Society. Report for 1919-20, pp. 1-95, 22 illustrations. 1920. 
(The twelfth census of American bison, taken January 1, 1920, shows 3393 
in the United States, 5080 in Canada, and 66 in foreign countries; a total of 
8539 pure bred living animals.) 
Bartholomew, James. Number of young in stoat’s family. Scottish Nat., p. 
181, November-December, 1919. (Records a litter of eleven young stoats.) 
Cadwalader, Williams B. Report of the board of directors. Forth-eighth 
Ann. Rep. Zool. Soc. Philadelphia, pp. 1-18. 1920. (Mammals exhibited 
in the Philadelphia gardens for the first time include Cebus flavescens, Lago- 
thrix infumatus and Dasyprocta variegata.) 
Cooper, Harold J. The hypophysis cerebri of the California ground squirrel, 
Citellus heechyi (Richardson). Amer. Journ. Anat., vol. 26, pp. 185-207, 
November, 1919. 
Davidson, Winifred M. See Wroughton, R. C., and Winifred M. Davidson. 
Dehaut, E.-G. Contributions a I’Etude de la Vie Vert6bree Insulaire dans la 
Region Mediterran5enne Occidentale et particulierement en Sardaigne et 
en Corse. Paris, Paul Lechevalier, 1920. pp. 1-95, pis. 1-3, text figs. 1-27. 
Price 15 fr. (Contains a number of articles wholly or partly on mammals.) 
Dixon, Joseph. Control of the coyote in California. Univ. of Calif. Exper. 
Station BuH. no. 320, pp. 379-397. April, 1920. (Discusses the good and 
bad points of the coyote, recommends control rather than extermination, 
and gives directions for reducing the numbers of this animal.) 
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