1867.] DR. J. MURIE ON THE EMU. -^105 



figure is by no means a characteristic one. The Cat has not been 

 brought from Himalaya by any of the numerous sportsmen and col- 

 lectors that have searched that country. It is not known to Mr. Bly th, 

 nor to any other Indian zoologist to whom I have shown it ; indeed 

 Mr. Blyth states that he believes it to be a South American Cat. 



The examination of the skull shows that it forms a group by itself; 

 and in my paper, read at the last j\leeting but one, I formed for it a 

 genus under the name of Pardalina. As the species has not been well 

 described, I herewith add a description of the type specimen: — 



Pardalina warwickii. (PL XXV.) B.M. 



Fur short, dusky whitish brown ; chin, streak on cheek, and 

 throat white ; chest and underside paler, black-spotted ; crown and 

 nape with four, cheek with two, and between the withers one black 

 streak ; the four feet and body covered with very numerous, equi- 

 distant, nearly equal-sized small black spots ; throat, chest, upper 

 part of the inside and outside of fore and hind legs black-banded ; 

 tail spotted at the lower half, ringed at the end, with a bhick tip ; 

 ears black, with a large white spot. 



Leopardus Jdmalayaniis, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 44. 



" Felis himalayanus, "Warwick," Jardiue's Nat. Libr. t. 24 (not 

 good). 



Hab. Himalaya (Cross, Warwick). 



Skull short, broad, length 4^ inches, width 3 inches 2 lines ; face 

 short, broad ; nasals moderately broad ; forehead convex, rhombic ; 

 orbits rather small, incomplete behind. The skull is very unlike 

 that of Felis viverrina. 



3. On the Tracheal Poucli of the Emu {Dromeeus nov(S-hol- 

 landi(E,\\eiM.). By James Murie, M.D., F.G.S., Pro- 

 sector to the Zoological Society. 



History. — Peter J. J. de Fremery, in a concise Academical Thesis 

 upon the Osteology of the Emu, published in 1819*, first pointed 

 out in this struthious bird the existence of an anterior aperture in 

 the trachea. 



The late Dr. Robert Knox, when Lecturer on Anatomy at Edin- 

 burgh, independently discovered and communicated to the scientific 

 world as new the fact of this bird's possessing a most remarkable 

 "large muscular bag" opening into the windpipe. His paper, 

 "Observations on the Anatomical Structure of the Cassowary of 

 New Holland," was read before the Wernerian Natural History 

 Society on the 26th April, 1823, and subsequently published in the 

 ' Edinburgh Philosophical Journal' for 1823-24, vol. x. p. 132. In 

 the same volume (p. 137) he added "Additional Observations on 

 the Structure of the Trachea in the Cassowary Emu of New Hol- 



* *' Specimen Zoologicum sistens observationes praesertim osteologicas de Ca- 

 suario Novpe HollandiK'.'' 



