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north and two degrees south of the equator. I did not meet it in 

 the maritime plains situated between these mountains and the sea. 



Mr. Du Chailhi also exhibited the skull of a manatee from West- 

 ern Africa, called " Manga " by the natives of the Camma country. 

 Thinking it to be a new species, he had proposed for it the name of 

 Manatus Oiveni, but it probably belongs to the M. Vogelii, (Owen,) 

 from the rivers of Central Africa, if that be specifically different 

 from 31. Senegalensis (Cuv.). The molars are f:|, of which six 

 are in use on each side of each jaw. 



General color dark plumbeous. Skin smooth, on which is 

 scattered all over the body single bristly straight hairs from, half 

 an inch to an inch long ; eyes very small ; paddles without nails. 

 The largest seen by him measured 10 feet in total length ; length 

 of paddle from below, 14 inches; greatest width of the tail, 23 

 inches. 



It is found in the Nazareth, Mexias, Fernand-Vaz, Npoulou- 

 nay, Ogobai, Rembo, Niembai, and Ovenga rivers, and also in the 

 Anengue Lake. It frequents places where the water is still, or 

 where the current is not strong. It feeds on the leaves of some of 

 the trees growing on the banks of these rivers, whose branches fall 

 into the stream, or on the grass growing in the water. During 

 the rainy season, when the amount of fresh water coming from 

 the interior prevents in the rivers mentioned the water of the sea 

 from mixing with that of the river, this manatee is often found but 

 a few miles above the mouth of the river. During the dry sea- 

 son, the amount of fresh water from the interior being less, and 

 the sea-water flowing with the tide up these rivers to a certain 

 distance, the manatee ascends higher up, in order to be in fresh 

 water. It is very fat, and the skin is very thick, by drying becom- 

 ing black and granulated. 



Dr. Bryant communicated the following notice of a 

 visit to Green Island, some ten miles out at sea, off the 

 mouth of Chester Bay, Nova Scotia, by the Rev. I. Am- 

 brose, M. A., Halifax, in a letter to J. Matthew Jones, 

 Esq. 



On June 28, 1860, he landed on the north side of the island. 

 Not a puffin or any other kind of bird was to be seen, save a large 



