420 MR. BLANFORD ON PARADOXURUS JERDONI. [Nov. 16, 
There was little doubt of the specific identity of the specimen with 
that belonging to the Vienna Museum, described by Fitzinger under 
the name of Cryptophractus pilosus*, and also with two specimens 
from Guyaquil in the Lima Museum, described and figured by 
Burmeister as Praopus hirsutus*, if, as was probably the case, the 
smaller size of the present specimen could be attributed to its not 
being full-grown. So far as Prof. Flower knew, these were the only 
published indications of the existence of this somewhat remarkable 
species, or at all events very distinct variety, of Armadillo, of which 
no specimen existed in our National collection. 
Prof. Bell exhibited and made remarks upon an object (apparently 
of the nature of an amulet) supposed to have been made from some 
portion of the skin of a mammal. It had been obtained from the 
natives at Moreton Bay, and sent to Kew, being supposed to be of 
vegetable origin. 
Mr. Seebohm exhibited a skin of the Lesser White-fronted Goose, 
Anser albifrons minutus (Anser erythropus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 
p- 197), which had been shot on the 16th of September last near Holy 
Island, on the coast of Northumberland, by Mr. Alfred Crawhall 
Chapman, of Sunderland. It was the first recorded example of the 
small form of the White-fronted Goose which had been obtained on 
the coasts of our islands, and it was especially interesting as being a 
young bird in first plumage. It proved to be a female on dissection, 
and bore a remarkable resemblance to the young in first plumage of 
the dark-bellied or typical form of the Brent Goose, Anser brenta ; 
but its much greater expanse of wing (4 feet) and its large legs 
and feet, which were yellow-ochre in colour when first shot, precluded 
the possibility of confounding it with that species. Its very small 
bill, quite as small as that of the Brent Goose, showed it to be a small 
example of the small form of the White-fronted Goose, but in so 
young a bird the white forehead had not yet appeared. 
Mr. W. T. Blanford exhibited a stuffed skin, the first perfect 
specimen he had seen, of Paradowxurus jerdoni, described and figured 
in the Society’s Proceedings for 1885 (pp. 613, 802, pl. xlix.). For 
this specimen, which was killed at Kateri (Kartary) on the Nilgiri 
hills, Mr. Blanford was indebted to Mr. G. F. Hampson, of Dun- 
sandle, Ootacamund, who had identified the species from the descrip- 
tion, and had confirmed the suggestion already made by Mr. Blanford, 
l.c. p. 618, that this species inhabits the Nilgiri hills as well as the 
Animalé range. 
The following papers were read :— 
1 Tageblatt, Nr. 32; Versamml. deutsch. Naturf. u. Aerzte, 1856, Nr. 6, 
8. 123. I am only acquainted with this reference through Fitzinger’s subsequent 
paper, “Die natiirliche Familie der Giirtelthiere (Dasypoder),” in Sitz. der k. 
Akad. der Wissensch., Band Ixiy, 1 Abth. (1871). 
? Abhandl. naturf. Gesell. Halle, B. vi. p. 147 (1861). 
