194 PROF. NEWTON ON AN ENGRAVING OF THE GEANT. [Feb. 18, 



Paraguay is well known to us from the writings of Azara and Rengger ; 

 but no one seems to have distinguished the Paraguayan animal from 



Tapir from Paraguay. 



the Brazilian. It will be interesting to see whether the skull and 

 bones present any corresponding points of difference. 



3. A female Reddish Macaque (Macacus rufescens), purchased 

 January 20th, of Mr. W. Jamrach, and apparently exactly agreeing 

 with the previously received specimen of this Monkey which was 

 noticed and figured in my report for February 1872 (see P. Z.S. 

 1872, p. 495, pi. xxiv.). Mr. Jamrach informs me that this speci- 

 men is believed to have been brought to Calcutta (where he purchased 

 it) from Batavia. But unfortunately this does not bring us much 

 nearer its true patria. 



4. An African Bat, presented by Mr. W. Jamrach on the same 

 day in a semitorpid condition, appears to be referable to the Tapho- 

 zous nudiventer of Riippell, Atlas, pi. 27, p. 70. 



5. Two Fire-backed Pheasants, received in exchange Jan. 29, 

 belong to the Bornean form Euplocamus pyronotus. 



Professor Newton, F.R.S., V.P., exhibited an old copper-plate 

 engraving, and remarked as follows : — 



" Not long since, Mr. Dresser was so good as to give me the print 

 I now produce representing certain birds. I was at once struck with 

 the strong likeness possessed by the principal figure (named ' Auis 

 Indica ') in it to that given by Leguat, in his ' Voyages et Avantures ' 



