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JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 
Fitzsimons, F. W. The Natural History of South Africa. Mammals. 
Vol. I, pp. i-xix, 1-178, 51 plates; Vol. II, pp. i-xi, 1-195, 48 plates. London; 
Longmans, Green and Co., 1919. 
The director of the Port Elizabeth Museum has given us a much needed work 
on the life-histories of the mammals of a region of very great interest. Based 
on long years of actual observation, his accounts of the various species, many 
of which are rapidly disappearing before the advance of settlement, are of more 
than usual completeness, and are presented in an entertaining style. The first 
volume includes the primates, bats, and Felidse; the second contains accounts of 
the Viverridse, the aard-wolf, hyenas, Canidse, Mustelidse, and the Cape sea- 
lion. A systematic index precedes and an outline of classification of the forms 
dealt with closes each volume. The main body of the text is decidedly popular 
and some of the biographies are extensive, that of the chacma including 40 
pages. Well-selected anecdotes, usually based on first-hand experiences, help 
to complete the pictures of the homes, lives, and characteristics of the animals. 
The author’s keen sympathy with wild creatures is evident throughout the work; 
extermination apparently necessary is deplored, and useless killing is condemned. 
The classification adopted, while in the main modern, is, in one place, curiously 
antiquated; the bat genera Taphozous, Nyctinomus, Mormopterus, and 
Choerephon being included in the family Vesper tilionidse. It is to be regretted 
that the International Code has not been followed strictly in the selection of 
names. In works for popular use these matters often are slighted, but there, 
if anywhere, they should be painstakingly correct; and differences in opinion 
might well be explained. It is presumed that the remaining volumes will include 
the rodents and ungulates, and naturalists interested in the wondrous animal life 
of South Africa will look forward with pleasure to their appearance. 
— N . Hollister. 
Rathbun, Mary J. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1913-18. 
Vol. VII: Crustacea. Part A: Decapod Crustaceans. Southern Party — ■ 
1913-16, pp. 1-14D. Ottawa, August 18, 1919. 
In this paper Miss Rathbun, listing the decapod crustaceans collected by the 
expedition, identifies the following species taken from the stomachs of the 
bearded seal, Erignathus harbatus (Erxleben), and common rough seal, Phoca 
hispida Schreber: 
Spirontocaris groenlandica (J. C. Fabricius) from E. harbatus. 
Spirontocaris spina (Sowerby) from P. hispida and E. harbatus. 
Spirontocaris phippsii (Kroyer) from E. harbatus. 
Spirontocaris polaris (Sabine) from E. harbatus. 
Sclerocrangon boreas (Phipps) from E. harbatus. 
Sabinea septemcarinata Sabine from E. harbatus and Phoca foetida {hispida). 
— R. M. Anderson. 
Dali, William Healey. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 
1913-18. Volume VIII: Mollusks, Echinoderms, Coelenterates, etc. Part 
A: Mollusks, Recent and Pleistocene. Southern Party — ^1913-16, pp. 1-30A. 
Ottawa, September 24, 1919. 
In this paper Dr. W. H. Dali, honorary curator of mollusks. United States 
National Museum, in describing the mollusks collected by the expedition, iden- 
