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feet wide, although decidedly a male, was devoid of these append- 

 ages. The colour of the upper surface was a pale, dull, yellowish, 

 or ashy-grey, obscurely mottled or dappled with a few scattered di- 

 stant paler whitish spots. 



Trygon altavela. — " Andorinha do mar." T. corpore rhom- 

 boideo, duplo latiore quam longo, alis expansis, cauda perbrevi. 



Pastinaca marina altera TrrepvirXare'ca, Altavela Neapoli dicta Colum- 

 na. Will., Hist. 65. Tab. C. 1. f. 3. (Copied from F. Columna.)— 

 Rariss. 



A single female individual only has occurred, measuring five feet 

 and a half from tip to tip of wings. 



LII. — Information respecting Botanical Travellers. 



Extracts from a Journal of the Mission which visited Bootan, in 

 1837-38, under Captain R. Boileau Pemberton. By W. Grif- 

 fith, Esq. Madras Medical Establishment*. 



The Mission left Gpwahatti on the 21st December, and proceeded 

 a few miles down the Burrumpootur to Ameengoung, where it halted. 



On the following day it proceeded to Hayoo, a distance of thirteen 

 miles. The road, for the most part, passed through extensive grassy 

 plains, diversified here and there with low rather barren hills, and 

 varied in many places by cultivation, especially of sursoo. One river 

 was forded, and several villages passed. 



Hayoo is a picturesque place, and one of considerable local note ; 

 it boasts of a large establishment of priests, with their usual com- 

 panions, dancing girls, whose qualifications are celebrated through- 

 out all Lower Assam. The village is a large one, and situated close 

 to some low hills ; it has the usual Bengal appearance, the houses 

 being surrounded by trees, such as betel palms, peepul, banyan, and 

 caoutchouc. To Nolbharee we found the distance to be nearly 

 seventeen miles. The country throughout the first part of the march 

 was uncultivated, and entirely occupied by the usual coarse grasses; 

 the remainder was one sheet of paddy cultivation, interrupted only 

 by topes of bamboos, in which the villagers are entirely concealed ; 

 we found these very abundant, but small : betel palms continued 

 very frequent, and each garden or enclosure was surrounded by a 

 small species of screw pine, well adapted for making fences. 



Four or five streams were crossed, of which two were not ford- 

 able : jheels were very abundant, and well stocked with water fowl 



* From th^ Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. 87, p. 208. 



