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behind the tooth. The left tooth measures 6 inches in length, 33 
inches in width, and is 1? inch thick. The space between the 
teeth measures 77 inches. The limbs are very imperfect ; all the 
smaller bones are missing; and there is only a part of one scapula. 
I did not find the pelvic bones. 
This animal was captured about a year ago, near Lord Howe’s 
Island. 
8. Zoological Notes of a Journey from Canton to Peking and 
Kalgan. By R. Swinuoz, F.Z.S. 
On my return from Hainan in April 1868 I visited Canton. In 
the market there three species of White Herons (1. alba, H. gar- 
zetta, and H. intermedia) were to be seen, with eyelids stitched 
together, walking about the counters of the bird shops—the bills of 
the first and last in different stages of black and yellow, changing 
from the winter to the summer colour—all with the nuptial plumes 
fully developed. Parrakeets with red cheeks (Paleornis longicauda?) 
were inabundance. The dealers told me that they were brought from 
the western portion of the province, down the west river. Polyphasia 
éenuirostris was often heard whistling in the neighbourhood. It 
has a quick undulatory flight as it flits from tree to tree, and has two 
other series of notes besides its ordinary call. 
We pulled down the river and went on board a Customs’ revenue 
cruizer to call on a Mr. S. Bligh, formerly a naturalist in Norfolk, 
who was serving on board. He had a tolerable collection of neatly 
prepared skins made on the Canton river. He had fine specimens 
of both Herodias alba and H. intermedia; and drew my attention 
to the fact that the latter lacked the pink garters which the former 
carries on the top of its bare ¢ibiz. He had alsoa large Goose with 
flesh-coloured bill and white dertrum and yellowish flesh-coloured 
legs ; tail broadly margined with white, and belly blotted with black ; 
apparently a race of Anser ferus. He had besides several of Totanus 
Juscus, L., which he assured me was very common during winter on 
the Pearl River. The best thing I got from him was a solitary spe- 
cimen of a new species of Porzana, which I have lately described in 
the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History’ (March 1870, p. 173) 
as Porzana mandarina. He showed me a Calamoherpe orientalis 
(T. & S.), which he said was just beginning to arrive. There were 
certainly plenty of Reed-warblers about then ; for the river-bankg re- 
sounded with their notes. Mr. Bligh believed that both Anas circia, 
L., and Anas zonorhyncha, mihi, breed in the neighbourhood of 
Canton. 
The Commissioner of Customs at Canton had a nice aviary, 
with several birds of interest in it. Of domestic things, the most 
curious was a full-grown Duck (cross between a Muscovy and the 
common Chinese or Penguin Duck) of a piebald colour, with Sour 
legs. The foremost pair were normal ; the hind pair hung obliquely 
