PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
January 11th, 1860. 
Dr. Gray, V.P., in the Chair. 
’ - Dr. Hamilton exhibited some remarkably fine and large specimens 
of hybrids between the Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) and the hen 
of the Domestic Fowl. 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited a series of the birds and lepidopterous 
insects contained in Mr. Wallace’s recent collections from the island 
of Batchian. Mr. G. R. Gray was stated to be preparing a list of 
the birds, recognizing eighty-five species, of which about twelve ap- 
peared to be undescribed. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Descrrprion or a New Species or Cuscus (C. orNATUS) 
FROM THE IsLAND OF BATCHIAN, WITH A LIST OF THE 
MAMMALIA COLLECTED IN THAT IsLAND By Mr. A. R. 
Watuace. By Dr. Joun Epwarp Gray, F.R.S., V.P.ZS., 
Pres. Ent. Soc., ETC. 
(Mammalia, Pl. LX XIV.) 
Mr. Wallace has sent to the British Museum a series of Mammalia 
collected in the island of Batchian in the year 1859. 
The most interesting specimen is a new species of the genus Cuscus, 
belonging to the section of the genus which has the inner surface 
of the ears bald. It may be thus described :— 
Cuscus ornatus (Pl. LXXIV.). 
Male pale golden-brown ; back rather darker, with small irregular 
white spots; crown and back with a narrow longitudinal blackish 
No. 417.—PRocEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
