238 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
other islands intervening between Borneo and Mindoro form an integral 
portion of the Bornean group, and do not naturally belong to the Philippine 
Archipelago, with which they have hitherto been treated. The writer 
founded his contention upon the grounds (1) that the islands in question 
are connected with Borneo by a shallow submarine bank, while they are 
separated from the Philippines by a sea of over 500 feet depth ; and (2) that 
a comparison of the Bornean and Philippine elements in the fauna of 
Palawan, so far as it is known, shows a marked preponderance of the former 
over the latter element; while the Philippine forms are also more largely 
and more profoundly modified than the Bornean species. This fact 
indicated that they had been longer isolated, and consequently that the 
fauna of Palawan was originally derived from Borneo, and not from the 
Philippines, though a considerable subsequent invasion of species from the 
latter group had taken place. 
A communication was read from Mr. Oldfield Thomas, containing an 
account of the mammals of Kina Balu, North Borneo, from the collections 
made on that mountain by Mr. John Whitehead in 1887 and 1888. The 
species represented in Mr. Whitehead’s collection were twenty-one in 
number, of which six had proved to be new to science. 
Mr. G. A. Boulenger read the second of his communications on the fishes 
obtained by Surgeon-Major A.S. G. Jayaker at Muscat, on the east coast of 
Arabia. The two collections recently received from Mr. Jayaker contained 
examples of eighty species not included in Mr. Boulenger’s former list. 
May 7, 1889.—Prof. Frower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 
the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of April, and called attention to a 
young male Sinaitic Ibex, Capra sinaitica, from Mount Sinai, presented 
by Sir James Anderson; and to a young male of the Lesser Koodoo, 
Strepsiceros imberbis, from East Africa, presented by Mr. George S. 
Mackenzie. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a living specimen of an 
albino variety of the Cape Mole, Georychus capensis, lately presented to 
the Menagerie by the Rev. George H. R. Fisk. 
The Secretary read a letter addressed to him by Dr. E. C. Stirling, of 
Adelaide, containing a copy of his description of a new Australian burrowing 
Mammal, lately published in the ‘Transactions of the Royal Society of 
South Australia,’ and promising to send to the Zoological Society a more 
complete account of the same animal. 
Mr. Seebohm exhibited and made remarks on the skin of a male example 
of Phasianus chrysomelas, which had been transmitted in a frozen state from 
the Trans-Caspian Provinces of Russia. 
