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the Storsjo, in Jemtland . According to the Reporter’s opinion, both thesekinds of Hare should be regarded as constant varieties, one of which has itschief abode in the north, the other in the south. Sundevall distinguishesboth his Hares from L. glacialis, which has only one tuft of black hairs uponthe tips of the ears (this being the ease also in both our specimens of L.glacialis, one whereof is derived from Labrador), the claws broad, obtuse,depressed at the apex, and hinder feet shorter by about oue inch. Close ad-measurements of seventeen specimens of the L. borealis and eight of L.canescens are subjoined.

EDENTATA.

Gray (Ann. of Nat. Hist, xiii, p. 70) establishes upon two specimensof Western Africa a new species of Pangolin, Manis multiscutata, whichis distinguished from M. tetradactyla (M. longicaudata) by a shorter tail(one and a half length of body), by double the number of scale-rows(23), and by more pointed triangular scales. The Reporter would hereremind the reader that this species is identical with M. tricuspis. Sund.,and the latter name is to be applied. Two other specimens of the samespecies obtained by Praser, from Hernando Po, have been brought byliim to England. (Ann. xiii, p. 227-) He kept them some time alive, andhad, therefore, an opportunity of making some remarks upon their habits.

SOLIDUNGULA.

Interesting anatomico-pbysiological remarks upon theHorse ’s foot have been published by Tscherning in Forhandl.vid. de Skand. Naturf. Stockb.1843, p.693; Isis, 1845, S.454.

PACHYDERMATA.

Owen, in bis Hist, of Brit. Foss. Mamm. p. 218, has givenan elaborate memoir upon Elephas primigenius.

It is not merely limited to the fossil remains that have been found inEngland, but enters at the same time into a general and critical investigationof the peculiarities of this remarkable creature belonging to the primary world.

In the ‘Bullet, de l’Aoad. de Petersb.’ ii, p. 16, is contained a notice ofthe fresh carcase of a Mammoth having been found (1840) in a frozen state,on the shore of the Tas river, and conveyed thence to Tobolsk . Pick(Muller’s Archiv , f. Anat. S. 431) examined the labyrinth of the Elephant,whereby he found that the cochlea is so flat, that its cupola projected butvery slightly above the level of the largest semicircular canal, and that a