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Note.—-In the genus Cyclina, there are usually placed several 
species with no denticulated inner margin, with thin valves, very fine 
transverse lines at the surface, and which seem to have always a 
superficial lunula circumscribed by an impressed line. These species 
are :—Venus kroyeri, Philippi, Abbild. ete. iii. p. 26. 78. No. 9. 
t.7.f.9; Dosinia tenuis, Recluz, Journ. de Conch. tome 3™*, 1852, 
p- 250. t. 10. f. 1, which is decidedly no Dosinia ; Artemis inflata, 
Sow., Thesaur. Conch. p. 661. No. 22. t.171.f. 25; Artemis tenuis, 
Sow. ibid. No. 23. t. 141. f. 22; Cyclina subquadrata, Hanley, B.M. 
Maz. Cat. p. 66. No. 91 (Artemis saccata, Gould); Cyclina pro- 
ducta, Carpenter, Proc. Z.S. L. 1856, p. 161. No. 6. I think these 
species do not agree very well with Cyclina, and that it would be 
justifiable to separate them asasubgenus. These observations show 
the importance of studying the animals of both groups, between which, 
when examined, I am convinced there will be found to exist consider- 
able differences. 
February 28th. 
John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Nore on THE PunsAB SHEEP LIVING IN THE Society's GAR- 
pens. By Pauiiie Lurtey ScuaTer, M.A., SECRETARY TO 
THE SOCIETY. 
(Mammalia, Pls. LXXIX., LXXX.) 
In August 1854 the Society received from Brigadier-General Hear- 
sey, of the Bengal Army, and Lieut. Bartlett, a fine living pair of 
Wild Sheep, which had been obtained by those gentlemen in the 
Salt-range of the Punjab in 1853. The female has twice bred in 
the Gardens, in 1858 and 1859, and produced on each occasion two 
female kids, so that we now possess a male and five females of this 
animal, all in a robust state of health, and likely to continue to pro- 
pagate their species. ; 
This Sheep has hitherto been labelled Vigne’s Wild Sheep (Ovis 
vignii), under the supposition that it belonged to the species described 
under that name by Mr. Blyth in our ‘ Proceedings’ (1840, p. 70), 
and subsequently in the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History’ 
(vii. p. 251). My present object is to prove that we have misnamed 
this animal, and that it is really quite distinct from the Shapoo or 
Wild Sheep of Ladakh and Thibet, which should more properly bear 
the name of Ovis vignit. 
My attention was first called to this point by my friend Captain 
