2/4 DU. A. GUNTHER ON A SPECIES OF PALYTHOA. [Mar. 7, 



the flat skin upon which Mr. Swinhoe founded the species, and which 

 is now in the Royal Zoological Museum of Berlin. 



The animal is a male ; and the canines project from the sides of 

 the mouth as in Hydropotes. There are no external antlers ; but 

 there are hard projecting cores, sensible to the touch, beneath the 

 elongated hairs which form a flattened disk on the forehead, as will 

 be seen by the drawing (see woodcut, p. 2/3) which I exhibit. 



Our Prosector will, no doubt, give us a complete account of this 

 most interesting form when our specimen dies. 



2. Two White-backed Pigeons {Columba leuconota), from the 

 Himalayas, purchased 16th February; and 



'A. A Narrow-barred Pigeon (Macropyyia leptogrammica) , from 

 Celebes, purchased 16th February. Both these Pigeons are new to 

 the collection. 



4. A Bay Bamboo-Rat (Rhizomys badius), from India, received 

 the 16th February. 



We have to thank Mr. Wood-Mason, of the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, for his present of an example of this interesting Rodent, 

 which is quite new to us. 



5. A female Anderson's Kaleege (Euplocamus andersoni), from 

 Burmah, presented by Mr. W. Jamrach, 18th February. 



We have not previously received examples of this species of 

 Kaleege, which is curiously intermediate between E. nycthemerus and 

 E, lineatus. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a skin of a female of Anderson's Pheasant 

 (Euplocamus andersoni, Elliot, P. Z. S. 18/1, p. 137), which had been 

 obtained alive from Burmah by Mr. W. Jamrach, along with another 

 specimen of the same sex, which he had presented to the Society's 

 collection. 



Mr. Sclater stated that there could be little doubt that the Phasi- 

 anus crawfurdii, J. E. Gray, in Griffith's Cuv. Anim. Kingdom, vol. 

 viii. p. 27, established upon a drawing in the possession of Mr. 

 Crawfurd (which Mr. Gould had reproduced in his ' Birds of Asia ' 

 as the female of E. prcelatus) was really the female of E. andersoni, 

 which species should therefore, in strictness, be called Euplocamus 

 crawfurdi. 



Dr. Giinther exhibited specimens of Antechinus minutissimus, ob- 

 tained by one of Herr Godeffroy's collectors in the neighbourhood of 

 Rockhampton, Australia, — and called special attention to the great 

 development of the genital organs, even in the young when in the 

 pouch, by which the sexes might be distinguished at this early stage. 



Dr. Giinther also exhibited, and made observations on, specimens 

 of a species of Palythoa (probably P. actinella of Oscar Schmidt) pa- 

 rasitic on a Sponge, which had been obtained at Naples by Dr. Bal- 

 four, and belonged to the Cambridge Museum. 



The following papers were read : — 



