306 Zoological Society. 



although he unquestionably constitutes among them a peculiar group, 

 sensibly exalted above the rest, as well as above all other Mammals. 

 Mr.Ogilby concludes by proposing the name of Cheiropeds, Cheiro- 

 poda, to include all the Mammals that are possessed of hands ; and 

 by subjoining a table of the famlhes and genera included in this or- 

 der, as he regards it. Of this table the following may be regarded 

 as an abstract. 



Class. Mammalia. 

 Order. Cheiropoda, 

 Mammals with opposable thumbs 



On the anterior extremities only Bimana. 



On both anterior and posterior extremities. . . . Quadrumana. 

 And with anthropoid teeth, 



Monkeys of the Old World. 



abnormal teeth, 



LemuridcB. 



On the posterior extremities only Pedimana. 



And with anthropoid teeth. 



Monkeys of the New World. 



rodent teeth, 



Cheiromys. 



abnormal teeth, 



Didelphidw. 



March 22. — Notes by Mr. Martin on the visceral and osteological 

 Anatomy of the Cariama, Dicliolophus cristatus, 111., were read, and 

 are given in No. xxxix. of the " Proceedings." 



In illustration of Mr. Martin's Notes, the mounted skeleton of the 

 Cariama was exhibited ; as were also preparations of several of the 

 viscera. 



Notes by Mr. Martin, of the anatomy of a specimen of Buffons 

 Touraco, Corythaix Buffonii, Vaill., were subsequently read, and are 

 also given in No. xxxix. of the " Proceedings." 



Mr. Bennett directed the attention of the Meeting to an interest- 

 ing series of the Indian Antelope, Antilope Cervicapra, Pall., now at 

 the Society's Gardens. It consists of four individuals : an adult and 

 aged male, brought by Col. Sykes from Bombay, and presented by him 

 to the Society nearly five years ago; a younger, yet adult, male, which 

 was presented, in an immature condition, about two years since; an 

 immature male, lately arrived in the Menagerie, and in about the 

 same state of development as that in which the last-mentioned indi- 

 vidual was when it was originally presented; and an emasculated in- 

 dividual of full growth. In the older of these .4n<e/ope5 the rich deep 

 colour of the body generally is so intense as almost to approach to 

 black, and the horns are strong and fully developed: the possession 

 of horns and the depth of colouring, which are peculiar to the male 

 sex, are exhibited in it at their maximum. The second individual ap- 

 proximates nearly to it in the degree in which these secondary sexual 

 characters arc developed. In the third, the youngest of the series, 

 there exist the horns characteristic of the male, but these organs are 

 yet of small growth, are only beginning to be annulated at their base. 



