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reference a good figure is also given of the a lult animal. About 

 two years afterwards, a female of the same species was received from 

 Paris, having been obtained, through the good offices of the au- 

 thorities of the Jardin des Plantes, from the French settlements in 

 Western Africa. Upon being placed in company with the male, she 

 produced a litter of three or four young ones in the summer of 1856, 

 and again in August 1857, but on both occasions destroyed them all 

 within a short period after their birth. In the following season a 

 litter of three young ones, produced on June 4th, 1858, was attended 

 with more fortunate results. One only of the young pigs perished, 

 shortly after its birth ; the other two, both females, are still living — 

 one in the Society's Gardens, and the other in the collection of the 

 Zoological Society of Amsterdam, to whom it was parted with in ex- 

 change for other animals. 



In 1859 the female Red River-hog again produced a litter of four 

 young ones (on October 24 th) ; but our efforts to save them were 

 quite unavailing, and they disappeared one by one, having been de- 

 stroyed by their mother within a few weeks after their birth. 



Mr. Wolfs figures give an accurate representation of the striped 

 condition of these young Potamocheres as they have appeared in 

 our Menagerie. Several of them in this state of coloration are now 

 in the collection of the British Museum, together with the original 

 male of the species, which died in February 1860, and the old fe- 

 male, which died in the previous autumn. 



The same striped condition of the immature animal is found in the 

 young of the Wild Hog of Europe (Sus scrofd) and that of India 

 {Sus indicus) ; but I am not aware of any corresponding stage in the 

 young of the domesticated animal of "this country ; nor is there 

 any sign of it in the young of the very curious Japanese variety of 

 the domestic Pig, which has lately reproduced in our Gardens. 



I may observe also that in the Peccaries (Dicohjles) (the Suid^e 

 of the New World) the young resemble the adult in coloration, 

 except in being lighter ; and in the Wart-hog (Pkacochcerus), 

 judging from the young individual in the British Museum, the case 

 is the same. 



The nearest counterpart I know, of the immature dress of Sus, is 

 to be found among the Tapirs, in two of which the young are some- 

 what similarly striped. But I am of course well aware that the 

 Tapirs and Pigs are now referred to two distinct orders of Mam- 

 malia. 



3. Notes on a Collection of Mammals made by the late 

 Mr. Osburn in Jamaica. By Robert F. Tomes, Corr 

 Mem. Z.S. 



(Plate XIII.) 



The collection, the species of which I am about to enumerate, is 

 interesting from containing specimens of a Bat which has very re- 

 cently been made the type of a new genus by Dr. Gundlach, and 

 because it also contains specimens of the Monophyllus redmanii of 



