792 MR. A. H. EVERETT ON ANOA DEPRESSICORNIS. [Nov. 5, 



The Secretary read the following extract from a letter addressed 

 to him by Dr. A. B. Meyer, C.M.Z.S., of the Royal Zoological 

 Museum, Dresden : — 



" Mr. Van Musschenbroek, the well-known discoverer of Diphyl- 

 lodes gulielmi III., tells me that one of his colleagues in the 

 Moluccas received about ten years ago from the west coast of New 

 Guinea (via Am Islands) a Bird-of-Paradise as large as P. apoda, 

 but in general like P. minor, with this difference, that the whole 

 body was covered with orange-coloured feathers. This bird was 

 presented to the king of Holland ; but never was any thing heard of 

 it again. In the year 1875 Mr. Van Musschenbroek saw in the 

 hands of Prof. Steere, at Menado, among a collection of bird-skins 

 which the latter had bought at Amboina, a specimen of P. minor 

 which reminded him of the orange Bird-of-Paradise mentioned 

 above. This specimen was spotted with yellow all over ; but it was 

 a bad skin, and gave Mr. Van Musschenbroek the impression that it 

 had belonged to a sick bird. 



"Are these individual varieties of P. minorl or have we to deal 

 with a new and unknown Bird-of-Paradise?" 



A communication was read from the Marquis of Tweeddale, Pre- 

 sident, pointing out that a correction made in the proof of his last 

 paper on Philippine Birds, antea, p. 611, had been through some 

 mistake overlooked. The correct specific name of the Pohjplectron 

 there mentioned, page 623, was napoleonis, Lesson, not emphanes, 

 Temminck, Lesson having given a description of his bird in the 

 additions and corrections to his ' Traitd d'Ornithologie,' page 650. 



The following extract was read from a letter addressed to Lord 

 Tweeddale by Mr. A. H. Everett, dated Singapore, July 21, 1878 :— 



" Just before leaving Manilla I paid a visit to the small museum 

 attached to the College of St. Thomas. There were a few bird-skins ; 

 but the room was very dark, and, being with a party of friends, I 

 could not make any satisfactory notes. My visit was, however, 

 repaid by finding a specimen of the Wild Ox of Celebes (Anoa 

 depressicornis), which had been brought from Mindoro. I had 

 been led to suspect its existence in that island, but had hitherto 

 failed to get any tangible evidence. I cannot say whether the 

 Philippine animal is identical with that found in Celebes or not. 

 The Professor of Natural History, who had no idea of the interest 

 attaching to his specimen, although he had labelled it correctly, said 

 that he had never heard of the Anoa being found at that part of the 

 world, except in the rugged interior of Mindoro, where, however, it 

 abounded. It is not easy to weigh the full import of the occurrence 

 of this singular animal in the Philippines until something more is 

 kuown about the fauna of Mindoro. 1 had previously been disposed 

 to doubt the existence of another Celebesian animal, the black 

 Cynopithecus, in the islands ; but I now feel less confidence on this 

 point, and it is quite possible that it may turn up in Mindoro." 



