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strong tendons; epithelium thick and leathery, containing 

 green mud-like ooze and several moderate-sized pebbles. In- 

 testine 2 ft. 9 in. long, from '3 in. to -4 in. thick, without any 

 maggot-like csecal appendage. 



The other bird, a male, was not noticeably different in size. 

 It had white testes '3 in. long by 'l in. thick. Gizzard contained 

 pebbles of different rock substances, with remains of the smaller 

 crustaceans. The trachea, not different from that of female, was 

 •2 in. wide he\ow glottis, bulging to "45 in., again contracting to 

 •25 in., and finally forming into a lower larynx ; wings rather 

 broad. Bronchi short. 



Feb. 7th. — Received a Hare, a Pheasant, and two Partridges 

 from Chefoo. The Hare is a good deal like our English Hare, 

 and is quite another thing from Lepus sinensis. The Pheasant 

 has a broader white neck-ring, and is paler and bluer on the 

 wing-coverts than our southern Phasianus torquatus. The 

 Partridges are the Caccabis chukar, and agree with the Hima- 

 layan birds almost to a feather. It is curious that the light 

 grey-blue drops on the scapulars, so beautiful in this species, 

 and so exquisitely contrasting with the madder red-grey tint of 

 the remaining parts of each feather, are not noted by either Dr. 

 Jerdon or Dr. Bree. Length of bird 14 inches ; wing 6*5 in. ; 

 tail 4"1 in., of fourteen feathers, graduated. Wing reaching to 

 2*8 in. from end of tail. 



My hunter returned from the interior with a live Porcupine, 

 certainly distinct from any of the known species, and with skins 

 of the following Mammals : — ViverTa zibetta, Canis procyonides, 

 Helictis moschaia, and of a beast like a large Mangouse, which, 

 thanks to Dr. J. E. Gray's excellent Monograph of the Viverriclce 

 (P. Z. S. 1864, p. 568), I have made out to be Urva cancrivora, 

 Hodgs. He brought only a few birds, among which were two 

 skins of a fine new species of the never-ending genus Garrulax, 

 and a skin of what I take to be a young male of Pericrocotus 

 speciosus. I can find none of Dr. Jerdon's species to match this 

 Garrulax ; and as I only know of two, the G. perspicillatus 

 (Gmel.) and the G. chinensis (Scop.), besides the " Hwamei," 

 from this part of the world, I will bring my new friend before 

 the reader as 



