280 Miscellaneous. 



torted and variously coloured, the limb very bright orange or red 

 or white, and the claw yellow and bearded within. The stamens and 

 other parts of the flower were of the usual form and number. On 

 some spikes a few of the flowers were only slit to the base along the 

 centre of the upper side, somewhat like the flowers of the genus 

 Lobelia ; and in another spike, some of the flowers had the upper 

 and lateral lobe of each side united, the slits being between the two 

 upper and on each side of the lower central lobes. The white variety 

 of the plant off*ered the same modifications. — J. E. Gray. 



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Notice of the Horns and Skull of the Arnee. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., P.B.S., V.P.Z.S. &c. 



Colonel James Matthie has lately presented to the British Mu- 

 seum the skull and horns of an Arnee or Bufl'alo, killed by him near 

 Fezpoor, Central Assam, on the 8th of April, 1842. 



The horns are of a very large size, as proved by the accompanying 

 measurement, being nearly as large as the separate horns without a 

 skull, in the British Museum, which formerly formed part of Sir 

 Hans Sloane's Collections, and were described and figured by him 

 in the Philosophical Transactions for 1727, no. 397, p. 222, f. 23. 

 These horns are 78 inches, or 6 feet 6 inches long. 



The dimensions of Colonel Matthie' s specimen are as follows, 

 according to his measurement. 



ft. in. 



" Length of the skull from occiput to nose 2 4 



Length of the horns round the outside of them and 



across the forehead 12 2 



Length of line from tip to tip of the horns 6 8 



Circumference of right horn at base 1 8 j 



„ „ left horn at base 1 8 



Width across the forehead 11 1^; ^ 



"The horns do not exactly correspond in length and shape." 

 The occipital portion of the skull is very much developed, to give 

 enlarged attachment to the muscles of the neck for the support of 

 the horns. 



I may observe, that the Arnee of Anderson, Bee, 1792 (the Bos 

 arne of Kerr, * Animal Kingdom,' 336. t. 295, copied into * Shaw, 

 Zoology,' iv. p. 400, t. 210), is only a large horned variety of the 

 common Bufl'alo, with horns nearly regularly curved from the base. 

 The horns presented by Colonel Matthie, on the other hand, are 

 nearly straight for great part of their length, and only curved at the 

 end. 1\\ this respect they agree with the horns in the British Mu- 

 seum, which Mr. Doyle, whose name is '* given to a sort of stuffe 

 worn in summer," discovered in a cellar in Wapping, and which he 

 gave to Sir Hans Sloane for his kindness in attending him in sickness. 

 These are described by the latter in the ' Philosophical Transactions ' 

 for 1727, no. 397, p. 222. f. 23; and re-described and figured by 



