18/9.] ON THE FEMALE OF CERIORNIS BLYTHII. 457 



the Cynocephali alone is any thing of this kind seen, and in them the 

 lower of these two sulci only (n, n). 



The anterior transverse (parietal) fissure (</, d) commences ex- 

 ternally between the two small sulci just described (e, e and n, n). 

 After running forward and upward it bends, turning slightly back- 

 wards to the middle line, where it is continued downwards upon the 

 median surface of the hemisphere for a short distance, as in no 

 species described by Gratiolet. 



The three-way convolution of the frontal lobe (///) resembles 

 tbat in the Cynocephali — the Semnopitheci, Macaci, and Cercopi- 

 theci almost or entirely lacking its posterior limb, which is well re- 

 presented in the Geladas and Baboons. 



Small independent sulci are more numerous than in Macacus and 

 Cercopithecus — about as many as in the Cynocephali, with which the 

 Gelada most agrees in size. 



Correlation of the facts above recorded makes me place Gelada 

 along with Cercopithecus and Cynocephalus away from Macacus. 

 Its affinities with Cercopithecus seem to me more iutimate than 

 with Cy?iocephalus, to which genus it most certainly does not 

 belong. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXVIII. 

 Brain of Gelada rueppelli, natural size. 



Fig. 1. Eight hemisphere, outer aspect. 



2. „ ,, inner aspect. 



3. ,, ,, superior aspect. 



4. „ „ inferior aspect. 



4. Notes on and Description of the Female of Ceriomis 

 blythii, Jerdon. By Lient.-Col. H. H. Godwin- 

 Austen, F.Z.S. 



[Eeceived May 15,1879.] 



(Plate XXXIX.) 



I have much pleasure in exhibiting the female of the rare 

 Ceriomis blythii, which up to the present time was unknown \ For 

 the acquisition of this bird, and our further knowledge of the species, 

 I am indebted to Capt. W. Brydon, of the 42nd Assam Light 

 Infantry, who obtained several of this species in the Aughami Naga 

 hills. He tried very hard to bring two of them to England alive, 



1 Since this paper was read we have received vol. vii. No. 6, of ' Stray Fea- 

 thers.' At p. 472 is a paper by Mr. A. O. Hume on this species, which leaves the 

 true plumage of the female still in some state of uncertainty. Either the bird 

 described by him is a female in a younger stage of plumage, or Capt. Brydon 

 and Lieut. Macgregor, who have kept these birds in captivity, are mistaken as 

 to the female putting on the red colour about the neck and thus assimilating 

 the plumage of the male to this extent. — H. H. G.-A. 



