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Show •*> MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON HEMICENTETES. [Jan. 17, 13. SOMATERIA V-NIGRUM. One of eight eggs taken near St. Michael's, Norton Sound. smooth and of a pale olive-green, measuring 2*4 in. x 1*67 in. 14. CHEN HYPERBOREUS. From the Arctic coast, eastward of the Anderson River. It is a warm yellowish-white, but much obscured by dirt, and measures 2*93 in. x 2*09 in. EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV. Fig. 1. Egg oi Numenius borealis, p. 56. 2. „ Calidris arenaria, p. 56. 3. „ Numenius hudsonicus, p. 57. 4. ,, Larus franklini, p. 57. «>• „ Xema sabinii. p. 57. 6. ,. Chroicocephalus Philadelphia, p. 57. 7. „ Chionis minor, p. 57. 8. „ Theristicus melanopis, p. 50. 4. On Hemicentetes, a new Genus of Insectivora, with some Additional Remarks on the Osteology of that Order. By ST. GEORGE MIVART, F.R.S. [Received January 17, 1871.] (Plate V.) HEMICENTETES MADAGASCARIENSIS. Erinaeeus madayascariensis, Shaw, Gen. Gool. i. 2. p. 458 Erinaeeus ecaudatus, Schreber, iii. p. 584, tab. 165* Erinaeeus semispinosus, Cuvier, Reg. An. 1st edition, p 136 Setiger variegatus, Geoff. St.-Hilaire, Nouv. Diet, xxxii p 54 Centenes semispinosus, Cuvier, Regne Anim. i. p 125 • Des niarest, Mamm. p. 162. no. 253. Centetes semisjnnosus, Fischer's Synopsis, p. 245. no 3 • Isid S ! f St-,I-llaire,' ?jCt-C r lass" xvi; P*"41> a n d Magasin de Zoologie,' 1839 pp. 15 and 32; Wagner, J. A. Schreb. Supplem. ii. pp.°35 and 5o3, and v. p. 583. FP Centetes madagascariensis, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist. 1836, and List of Mammalia in Brit. Mus. 1843, p. 82. Le jeune Tanrec, Buffon, Hist. Nat. Suppl. iii. p. 214, tab xxxvii . Sonnerat, Voyage a la Chine, torn. ii. p. 146. *; Asiatic Hedgehog, Pennant's Quadrupeds, ii. p. 236. The curious iusectivore the osteology of which is now, I believe for the first time described, has been very long known, having been well figured by Buffon in 1776. Nevertheless it was considered by M. Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire a species determined from nnma |