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Show 742 DR. A. GUNTHER ON NEW MAMMALS. [NOV. 7, brought to the Paris Museum by Diard and Duvaucel (p. 62). With the evidence of two tailless specimens before us, we may well be justified in supposing that this skeleton does not belong to the same species of which he has figured the skull. 3. On the Cranial Differences of the species o/x\therura. Of the three species of Atherura, viz. :- 1. A. fasciculata (Waterh., ?Shaw), from Siam, with simple, flattened caudal bristles ; 2. A. macrura (h.iWaterh.)=fasciculata (Gray, Cantor), from the Malayan Province, with twisted and irregularly dilated caudal bristles ; and Fig. 3. Fig. 4. Atherura macrura. Atherura africana. 3. A. africana (Gray), from the west coast of Africa, with caudal bristles as in the preceding*,- * I have repeatedly (for instance, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 103) drawn attention to |
