1879.] MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE ANATOMY OF TUPAIA. 301 



b. A second black-billed specimen, purchased Sept. 25, 1876. 

 This bird, when in immature and dirty plumage, on its first arrival, 

 was wrongly referred to P. schisticeps, of which species we have 

 never received living specimens. 



c. A bird with the upper mandible red, and therefore, I suppose, 

 male, brought from Muttra, North-west Provinces, and presented 

 Feb. 21, 1878, by Mrs. Barthorp. 



Of the allied form of Java and Borneo (P. javanicus ') we have at 

 present no specimens in the Collection. 



6. Caica xanthomera. (Plate XXVIII.) 



Caica xanthomeria, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 266. 



Psittacus xanthomerius, Gray, List of Psitt. p. 73. 



Caica xanthomera, Scl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 419. 



Pionius xanthomerus, Finsch, Papag. ii. p. 437. 



Of this beautiful Parrot we received two living examples from 

 Yquitos, on the Peruvian Amazons, in 1877, as already recorded. 

 One of these is dead ; but the other is now in fine plumage, as the 

 accompanying sketch by Mr. Sinit (Plate XXVIII.) will show. 



Besides the type in the British Museum, from the Rio Javari 

 (Bates), and a single example obtained alive by Natterer on the 

 Madeira (Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 264), our specimens are, I believe, 

 the only ones known of this species. 



4. Notes on the Visceral Anatomy of the Tupaia of Burmah 

 (Tupaia belangeri). By A. H. Garrod, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Prosector to the Society. 



[Eeceived March 5, 1879.] 



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 Tupaiidse, the most 

 important account of the viscera with which I am acquainted being 

 that by Dr. Cantor on Tupaia fer rug inea 2 . 



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 



1 I cannot agree with Dr. Finsch's transfer of the name alexandri (Linn.) 

 from the bird usually so called (i. e. eupatrius, Finsch) to the present species, 

 for which the first name properly applicable seems to be javanicus of Osbeck, 

 given in J. R. Forster's translation of Osbeck's Voyage to China, &c, vol. i. p. 156 

 (1781). 



a Journ. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal vol. xv. 1846, p. 189. 



