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ZOOLOGY OF JAVA. 



Temminck, in the Fauna Japonica, states, that he knows 82 kinds 

 of mammalia, 455 birds, and 90 species of amphibia, as inhabiting 

 that island, although the interior is almost entirely unknown. 



ON THE TWO SPECIES OF ECHIDNA, BY J. E. GRAY. 



Sir E. Home, in his paper in the Phil. Trans, for 1802, figured two 

 specimens of this animal, and Cuvier (Regne Animal, vol. i. p. 225,) 

 considered them as two species, naming the one Echidna Hystrix, 

 and the other E. setosa ; but most succeeding zoologists have re- 

 garded them as a single species, some considering the latter as 

 either the winter state, others as the young of the former. The 

 specimens which we have in the British Museum show that they are 

 very distinct species, coming from different countries, and differing 

 more in the colour of the fur than in the length of the spines. The 

 E. Hystrix, Cuv. (Myrmecophaga aculeata, Shaiv, Misc. Nat. 1. 109, 

 O. Hystrix, Home, tab. at p. 340,) is black, and came from the conti- 

 nent of New Holland, while E. setosa, Cuv. (Home, tab. at p. 341 ?), 

 is brown, with a blackish spot on the orbit : this is confined to Van 

 Diemen's Land. They both grow to the same size : the full grown 

 are nearly eighteen inches long. 



METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR APRIL 1838. 



Chiswick. — April 1. Cold and dry: frosty. 2. Sharp frost : cold and dry, 

 3 — 5. Fine. 6. Cloudy. 7. Rain. 8. Cloudy. 9 — 14. Very fine. 15. 

 Fine: clear and windy. 16. Hail showers in forenoon: snow. 17. Cloudy 

 and cold : showery at night. 18. Cold and dry. 19. Slight snow : over- 

 cast and cold. 20. Sleet and hail. 21. Fine. 22. Rain : fine. 23. Very 

 fine: rain at night. 24,25. Fine. 26,27. Bleak and cold. 28,29. Cold 

 and dry. 30. Slight rain. The mean temperature of this month was four 

 degrees below its usual average at this place. 



Boston. — April 1. Snow. 2—4. Fine. 5. Fine: rain p.m. 6, 7. Cloudy: 

 rain early a.m.j rain p.m. 8. Stormy : rain early a.m.; rain p.m. 9. Cloudy. 

 10. Rain. 11. Cloudy: 3^ p.m. thermometer 65°. 12. Fine. 13. Cloudy. 

 14. Fine: rain p.m. 15. Cloudy: stormy p.m. 16. Stormy: snow p.m. 

 17. Stormy: snow early a.m. 18. Stormy: snow p.m. 19,20. Cloudy: 

 snow early a.m. 21. Cloudy: large quantity of hail a.m.: rain p.m. 22. 

 Cloudy. 23. Fine: rain p.m. 24. Fine. 25. Cloudy: rain p.m. 26. 

 Stormy. 27. Rain. 28, 29. Fine. 30. Rain : snow early a.m.: rain p.m. 



Applegarth Manse , Dumfriesshire. — April 1. Clear and frosty. 2. Shower 

 of snow : melted. 3. Moist : showery : cold. 4. Showery but mild. 5. 

 Wet: cleared up : fine day. 6. "Wet: blowy: cleared up. 7. Wet all 

 day. 8. Dry : hills covered with snow. 9. Dry : cold : frosty morning. 

 10. Wet : showery all day. 11. Stormy, and wet p.m. 12. Stormy: dry: 

 cold. 13. Clear and cold. 14. Slight showers. 15. Showers: violent 

 wind. 16. Cold and stormy: frosty. 17. Cold and boisterous. 18. Frosty 

 a.m.: very cold. 19. Cold and withering. 20. Still cold and barren. 21. 

 Hoar frost a.m. : dull evening. 22. Dull and cloudy : no frost. 23. Slight 

 rain a.m.: cleared up. 24. Slight rain a.m.: cleared up. 25. Cold and 

 ungenial. 26. Very withering. 27. Hoar frost a.m. 28. Still withering. 

 29. Looking like rain. 30. Rain : cleared up p.m. 



