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to be a young black Cock, having neaily completed his first nioult. 

 He added that lie was indebted to Mr. Sabine for the Information 

 that the Tetr. rupestrh of Pennant's 'Arctic Zoology' lias been killed 

 in Perthshire, and that the specimcn is preserved in the collection of 

 Lord Stanley, the President of the Society. 



At the requcst of the Chairman, Mr. Martin referred to the notes 

 of the dissection of a speciinen of Testtido Grceca vvhich he had laid 

 before the Coinmittee on the 26th of April, and stated that the 

 correctness of these notes had been subsequently confirmed by the 

 examination of another individual of that species, in vvhich he liad 

 observed the šame lengthened form of stomach j similar intestines ; 

 and a ccecum agreeing vvith that previously described. The urinary 

 bladder also corresponded in form and size. The trachea bifurcated 

 in the šame manner; and the bronchine had the šame remarkable 

 sigmoid flexiire, and vvere furnished vvith the compressing musele 

 vvhich he had before noticed. 



Mr. Owen remarked that he liad ascertained the existence of a 

 CčBcum in another species of Torioise, {Emys concentrica, LeconteJ 

 which he had recently dissected. 



The preparation of the cceciim of the Teitudo Gro'ca having been 

 laid upon the table, it vvas pointed out that the part so termed in 

 this instance consisted of a pouch formed by the oblique insertion 

 of the small into the large intestine, the upper end of the latter 

 being dilated as in the human subject into a ccectim cajnit coli: but 

 that it by no means corresponded vvith the ccEca of birds, and might 

 almost be regarded as vvanting when contrasted vvith the develope- 

 ment of the šame part in some of the Ophidian Rcptiles, as in the 

 genera Pythoyi, Boa, &c. 



A living individual, apparently referable to the Gulo barbarus, L., 

 vvas exhibited. It vvas presented to the Society by Edmonstone 

 Hodgkinson, Esq. of Trinidad, vvho describes it as being " playful 

 and gentie, although easily excited, and very voracious. It is ex- 

 ceedingly strong, as is indicated by its shape ; and it has the šame 

 antipathy to the vvateras acat." Mr. Hodgkinson suspects that itis 

 a native of Peru. He obtained it inVenezucla, vvhere it vvas presented 

 to him by the President, General Paez. The name he received vvith 

 it vvas " the Guache ;" but this appellation, it vvas observed by Mr. 

 Bennett, vvas probably erroneously applied to the present animal, 

 belonging rather to the Coati, the orthography of vvhich is variously 

 given as Coati, Couali, Quasje, Quac/ii, and Guachi. The latter 

 form occurs in the ' Personai Narrative' of the Baron Von Hum- 

 boldt, vvhere it evidently refers to a nocturnal species of Nasua. 



The form and general appearance of the animal vvere remarked 

 to be altogether those of a Mustela, to vvhich genus it is probable 

 that it should be referred, together vvith the typical Gulo barbarus. 

 A specimen of the latter vvas placed upon the table, from vvhich the 

 living animal vvas shovvn to difter by the absenceof the large yellovv 

 spot beneath the neck : a remarkable distinction in this group, but 

 on the occurrence of vvhich, unless confirmed by sevcral specimens, 



