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ZOOLOGICAL EECOliD
FOR 1870.
BY
MAMMALIA
ALBERT GUNTHER, M.A., M.D., PH.D., P.R.S.
GENERAL NOTES AND FAUNAE.
Prof. BURMEISTER gives a list of the Mammalia in the Museum
at Buenos Ayres. An. Mus. Buen. Aires, 1869, pp. 446-
465. One hundred and eighty-seven species.
Dr. J. L. SOUBEIRAN, during the siege of Paris in 1870,
drew up an account of the aliments derived by more or less
civilized nations from the animal kingdom. The paper is entitled
"Curiosite's de F Alimentation."''' Bull. Acclim. 1870,
pp. 714-734.
Arctic Region. " Anteckningar om djurlifvet i Ishafvet
mellan Spetsbergen och Gronland " [Remarks on animal life in
the Glacial Ocean between Spitzbergen and Greenland], by
A. QUENNERSTEDT, Svensk. Vet. Ak. Handl. vii. 1868, pp. 35,
3 plates. The mammals to which special attention was paid
are species of Phoca.
Siberia. Under the title "Neue Untersuchnngen liber die
in den altaischen Hohlen anfgefundenen Saugethierreste, ein
Beitrag zur quaternaren Fauna des Russischen Reiches," Prof.
F. BRANDT gives an account of the remains of recent species
found in a fossil condition in caves of the Altai Mountains.
M.61. Biol. vii. 1870, pp. 359-438 j Bull. Ac. Sc. St. Petersb.
xv. pp. 147-202. These researches are very important for our
knowledge of the distribution of animals, and refer to the
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