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leaving the parent stem very shortly before the true Gallinz first 
appeared, and at about the same time as the independent pedigree of 
the Cuculide and Musophagides commenced. That the Musopha- 
gide and the Cuculide are very closely related to the Galline is 
‘proved by facts brought forward by me in an earlier paper;* and 
the anatomy of the Hoatzin seems to still further favour this hypo- 
thesis, by showing that there exists a bird which helps to fill the gaps 
between them. 
79. NOTES ON THE VISCERAL ANATOMY OF THE 
TUPAIA OF BURMAH (TUPAIA BELANGERI)4 
On February 8th, 1875, the Society received as a present from the 
Hon. Ashley Eden, C.S.I., a male Burmese specimen of Tupaia 
belangeri, which died, without any perceptible organic lesion, on 
December 18th, 1876. 
Not much is known of the anatomy of the Tupaiide, the most 
important account of the viscera with which I am acquainted being 
that by Dr. Cantor on Tupaia ferruginea.t 
Subjoined are the notes on the anatomy of the Society’s specimen 
of T. belangeri. 
The parotid and submaxillary glands are of about equal size, 
flattened and subcircular, a little less than half an inch in diameter, 
the duct of the former coursing superficially near the lower border of 
the powerful masseter muscle. The duct of the latter opens by the 
side of its companion, at the tip of a small and slender pointed papilla 
situated just behind the symphysis of the lower jaw. The ey 
glands form a linear chain along the floor of the mouth. 
The tongue, which is rounded at its tip, is 1:3 inch in length and 
‘35 inch broad, having its margins nearly parallel. Its upper sarface 
is covered with filiform papille, among which are scattered papille 
fungiformes, very much in the same proportion as in the Ruminantia. 
There are three conspicuons circumvallate papille, arranged in the 
usual V-shaped manner. 
A rudimentary unfringed sublingua exists, which is lanceolate in 
contour, just free at its margins, and with a strongly marked median 
* Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” 1874, p. 121. (Supra, p. 220.) 
+ “Proceedings of the Zoological Society,” 1879, pp. 301-5. Read, March 18, 
1879. 
t “Journ. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal,” vol. xv. 1846, p. 189. 
