1886.] PROF, FLOWER ON A SPECIMEN OF ARMADILLO. 419 
that the Museum of Copenhagen had received in 1878 a specimen 
of this mammal in spirit from Buitenzorg, Java, forwarded by the 
late Mr. Kébke, Danish Consul at Batavia, and that he has been 
infermed by Mr. H. Winge that several specimens of it from the 
same locality were in the Museo Civico of Genoa. 
A letter was read from Dr. A. B. Meyer, C.M.Z.S., communi- 
cating the following remarks by Mr. K. G. Henke on a specimen 
of a hybrid Grouse, in the Dresden Museum, referred to by Dr. 
Collett in a previous communication :— 
* Dr. Collett has declared (supra, p. 225, note) a hybrid which 
I have figured, ‘ Zeitschrift fiir die gesammte Ornithologie,’ 1885, 
p- 47, pl. iii., ‘to be clearly only a partial albino of Tetrao tetrir 
fem.,’ but without giving his reasons for this opinion. 
“TJ will not discuss the question now, whether Zetrao tetrix or 
Lagopus albus was the father of this specimen, as it is treated and 
refigured, not as a single example of its kind, but together with 
others, similar and varying, in Dr. Meyer’s forthcoming work 
‘ Unser Auer-,Birk- und Rackelwild,’ which will be illustrated by 15 
coloured folio plates. I only wish to remark here, that Dr. 
Collett’s view of the said specimen does not appear to be correct, as 
supposing it really were a partial albino, a strong partial melanism 
would still be present, to account for the many black patches 
and markings, of which there is no trace in the female Tetrao tetrix 
—a coincidence which no one will admit, and which never has been 
observed. Besides, the albino of Tetrao tetriz, fem., has no such 
regular markings as the specimen in question. 
‘IT therefore cannot agree with Dr. Collett, but am convinced that he 
is mistaken in declaring the Dresden specimen to be a partial albino.” 
Prof. Flower exhibited a specimen of an Armadillo, now belonging 
to the Museum of the Scarborough Philosophical Society, but the 
origin of which unfortunately appeared to be unknown. It was evi- 
dently a member of the genus Tatusia, and closely allied to the common 
T. novemeincta or T. peba, from which it differed mainly in having the 
whole of the carapace covered with a thick coating of light brown, 
fine, but rather stiff hair, about an inch and a half in length. The 
same kind of hair grew on the cheeks, the proximal portion of the 
limbs, and (though less abundantly and shorter) on the whole under 
surface of the body. The cephalic shield, the snout, the hands and 
feet, and the tail (except quite at the base) were bare. The covering 
of the hair of the back and sides was so thick as completely to conceal 
the carapace, except near the antero-inferior margin of the scapular 
region; but the usual scutes and bands were seen to be present on 
separating the hair, which only grew from the intervals between 
them. The length of the head was 33, of the body 84, and 
of the tail 83 inches. Unfortunately nearly the whole of the skull 
had been removed, but some of the anterior teeth which remained 
in the jaws were of very small size and appeared to indicate that 
the animal was young. 
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