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in the fourth digit has the same character. The proximal phalanges 

 of the fifth digit have not been found. 



The distal or third phalanx is a broad bone, squarely truncated at 

 the extremity, and longer than the rest of the digit, in the second, 

 third, and fourth, and presumably in the fifth digit. Each of these 

 phalanges is thicker on one side than on the other, so that the upper 

 surface, which is convex from side to side, and also from before 

 backwards, slopes from the thick towards the thin edge. 



The distal phalanx of the second digit has its thick edge on its 

 ulnar side, but all the others have their thick edges radial. The 

 distal phalanx of the fifth digit is more pointed, smaller, and thicker 

 in proportion than the others. 



The hind foot is quite normal in structure, possessing five toes 

 and the regular number and disposition of tarsal, metatarsal, and 

 phalangeal bones. The third or middle digit is the longest, and its 

 distal phalanx is the longest of all. It is nearly square, and its outer 

 and inner edges are almost equally thick. The distal phalanges of 

 the other toes are all thicker on the side turned towards the middle 

 toe. That of the second toe is almost as square as that of the third ; 

 but the distal angles of that of the third and fourth are bevelled off 

 on the fibular side, while the terminal phalanx of the hallux is 

 similarly bevelled off upon the tibial side. The metatarsal bones 

 have the same thick prismatic form, and the proximal phalanges the 

 same discoidal character as in the fore foot. 



The calcaneal process is directed outwards at an angle of 45° from 

 the axis of the foot, and must have been much raised in the natural 

 position. 



While the work of restoration, whose results have just been briefly 

 detailed, was going on, we learned from Dr. Falconer that a nearly 

 entire specimen of a Glyptodon was exhibited in the Museum at 

 Turin. An application was at once made to the authorities of the 

 Museum for information, and, if possible, for photographs of this 

 skeleton, and was responded to with the most obliging readiness. 



These photographs of a skeleton in some respects more, in others 

 less perfect than that of the College, have confirmed the conclusions 

 already arrived at in the most satisfactory manner ; and I trust 

 before long to be in possession of descriptive details of parts of this 

 specimen which are wanting in our own, and which will enable me 

 to complete the anatomy of the skeleton of the gigantic extinct 

 Armadillo. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



June 10, 1862.— Professor Busk, F.R.S., in the Chair. 



List of Mammalia from the Camaroon Mountains, col- 

 lected by Capt. Burton, H.M. Consul, Fernando Po. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.ll.S. 



Crocidura morio, sp. nov. 



Uniform rather brownish black, rather paler and browner beneath. 



