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March 22, 1831. 



Joshua Brookes, Esq. in the Chair. 



The Repovt on the animals for the importalion of which the Coun- 

 cil should be recommended to take measures, was again brought 

 under the consideration of the Committee, and was adopted. 



A Rąport from Mr. Miller, the Superintendent of the Society's 

 Gardens, was read, explanatory of the circumstances attending the 

 birth of the Armadillos. On the morning of the Ist February it was 

 discovered that the female had made a nešt of stiaw, close up to 

 the pipe that conveys the warm water round the building, and had 

 brought forth two young, which \vere quite blind, and measured 

 about four inches from the head to the tail. The inale was imme- 

 diately removed to another cage, but it was supposed that he had 

 injured one of the young ones on the head before they were disco- 

 vered, of vvhich hurt it died on the follovving morning. ' At that time 

 the other young one seemed to be perfectly vi-ell, and was sucking; 

 but it also vvas found dead on the morning of the 3rd of February. lt 

 was bitten on several parts of the head by the motlier. It is probable 

 that the injuries were inflicled by her in consequence of her young 

 ones having been moved about j and measures have been adopted to 

 prevent the recurrence of such disturbance on any future occasion. 



The follovving notes on the Clenodactylus Massonii, Gray, were 

 read by Mr. Yarrell : — 



" The death of two examples of an interesting little animai from 

 Barbary, very similar to the Lemmings in external appe.irance, has 

 enabled me to place before the Committee some particulars of struc- 

 ture and anatomy which possess considerable novelty. The subjects 

 themselves were presented to the Society by Hanmer Warrington, 

 FiSq., British Consul at Tripoli, a Corresponding Member of this So- 

 ciety, and one of its most liberal donors. 



" From two preserved skins of the šame species, in the coUection 

 at the British Museum, Mr. Gray, in his ' Spicilegia Zoologica,' has 

 lately published an account of this animai, under the name of Cleno- 

 dactylus Massonii. These specimens were received from the Cape of 

 Good Hope, and were considered new to science. There is reason 

 hovvever to believe, as suggested by Mr. Ogilby, that all the four 

 specimens may be considered identical with the Mus Gundi of Roth- 

 man, on whose description is founded the Ardomys Gundi of Gmelin 

 and other writers, and the Gundi Marmot of Pennant's Zoology, 

 yol. ii. p. 137 : Rothman's short description coincides with the animai 

 in question, and he statės that his species inhabits Barbary, tovvards 

 Mount Atlas, near Massufin. 



"The resources of the Society furnish the follovving additional 

 particulars : — 



