" The rimą gluttidis presented a construction very similar to that 

 of the Lion, the slit being simple with its edges considerably pro- 

 duced ; a form occasioned by the projection of the arytenoid car- 

 tilages, vvhich in shape were fbund to be somewhat triangular, one 

 angle of each cartilage being placed anteriorly. 



" The thyroid gland consisted of two compressed disjoined lobes, 

 one on each side of the larynx, exteiiding frora the top of the first 

 ring as far down as the sixth or seventh. 



"The epiglottis was broad and acuminate. 



" The trachea consisted of thirty-four imperfect rings, and mea- 

 sured fully 3 inches in circumference ; the cartilaginous portion 

 making up but about two-thirds of the circle, and being ver)' soft 

 and elastic. At the division of the trachea two large indurated 

 glands were situated." 



A preparation of the tongue, ]arynx and trachea of an Ocelot, 

 Felis Pardalis, Linn., having been placed on the table for compa- 

 rison with the preparation of the šame parts in the Jaguar, Mr. 

 Martin pointed out the difference between them. He shovved that 

 vvhile in the Jaguar there intervenes between the base of the tongue 

 and the rimą glottidis a distance of 3 inches, in the Ocelot the 

 rinia and base of the tongue are in close proximity. In the Ocelot 

 the epiglottis is Jarger in proportion than in the Jaguar, is not so 

 acute, and has a sh'ght indentation at the point : the rings of the 

 trachea are also firmer and more perfect than in the Jaguar ; and 

 the edges of the rimą glottidis do not protrude as in that animal and 

 in the Lion, The thyroid gland is double both in the Ocelot and 

 the Jaguar. At the commencement of the asophagus the mem- 

 brane is puckered up in the Ocelot into a number of irregular folds 

 Crossing ihe stricp, vvhich are there very slight and longitudinal so 

 as to form a kind of valve or obstruction : in the Jaguar on the con- 

 trary the strice are transverse, and there are no valve-Iike foldings 

 of the membrane betvveen the 'pharynx and cesophagus. 



The follovving note by A. P. Palmedo, Esq., H. M. .Consul in 

 Corsica, dated Bastia, Jan. 1832, was read. It was communicated 

 to the Committee by Mr. Barnard. 



"There had been hitherto no instance in Corsica oi Motifflons 

 breeding in a domesticated statė, nor any of their couph'ng with 

 Sheep, though the flocks of the latter not rarely approach the high 

 regions of the Movjfflon. General Merlin, the commanding officer 

 of Corsica, has now, ho\vever, not only a young Motijfflon born of 

 two tame Mouffions in bis possession, but also an ofispring of the 

 šame he-Mouffion and of a Eive." 



