224 NATURAL HISTORY. 



See too the curious bison head of mine, shot iu 1885, in the Society's Rooms. 

 The bony core being only a few inches long, there was nothing to give the 

 usual bend to the horns, which have accordingly grown straight out and curved 

 forward. This was a very old cow, the incisor teeth being worn level with 

 the gums — a thing I have never seen before. I shot her by a fortunate accident. 

 There were a lot of three bison. I noticed something peculiar about the head 

 during the stalk, but did not see wbat the real state of the case was. Firing 

 at the Jarge bull, I broke his shoulder. The second barrel was intended for the 

 bull, but the cow rushed alongside as I pressed the trigger and got the bullet in 

 the neck, dropping dead. 



I also send for inspection a small samber head. lam not sure whether the 

 right horn has ever bad a brow antler. There has been a fracture of soma 

 sort. Whether tbe brow antler has been broken off and the fracture worn 

 smooth, or, as lam induced to think from there being no fracture visible on 

 the inside of the horn, that there was no brow antler, is doubtful. If the latter 

 s s tbe case, the long brew antbr (for the size of head) of the left horn is 

 remarkable. 



Pteropus Edwardsi. 



I saw on 9th May this year at Nara, on the banks of the Jouk River, a number 

 of Flying-foxes fanning themselves in the way described by Mr. Aitken. The 

 fanners however were only about 10 per cent, of the population. 



J. D. I. 



Editor's note on above.— Mr. Inverarity was kind enough to send me the 

 above notes to help me in a continuation of my previous paper on horns; 

 but ill-health has prevented my taking up the subject more fully this time 

 so I have published his notes without any addition of my own. I have 

 copied his sketch of the very curious samber horn he picked up ; and have also 

 to thank him for the loan of a book on sport in Madras by "the Old Shi- 

 karry" (G. A. R. D.), in which is a photograph of a cheetal's head with an 

 abnormal bez-tine of extraordinary length. I have taken the liberty of 

 copying this, and it forms No. 2 sketch in the accompanying plate. 



E. A. S. 



Neomeris Kurrachiensis.— (Murray). — The following description of the 



Porpoise, mentioned in the paper on the Waters of Western India , page 159, 



of which I have given an illustration, has been sent to me by Mr. Murray, 



and is in fact a draft of his paper on the subject in ths Ann. and Mug. Nut. 



History, Vol. XIII., 1884. It will interest our readers and supplement Keswal's 



description. 



R. A. S. 



' : A castacean of the family Delphinidse, which I sball describe under the 

 name Neomeris Jcurrachiensis. The characters of the genus are : — Dorsal fin 

 none; nose of skull short, rounded in front, flat and shelving above ; teeth 

 numerous, compressed, nicked, acute, extending nearly the whole length 

 of the jaw (Gray, 'Seals and Whales', &c. ). 



"Neomeris phocaenoides is the only species of the genus, and its dentition 

 is given as \i (Delphinu3 melas) or f§ on each side. The species 



