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bird to exist in the highest parts of the mountains of Cuba, estimated 

 to reach 3500 feet ; and when the thermometer falls in winter during 

 the northern, to a degree little elevated, I should imagine, above the 

 freezing-point. I have seen the thermometer, at an elevation of per- 

 haps 1800 or 1900 feet, fall to 47° during a heavy northern last Ja- 

 nuary." 



The following memoir, " On the Blood-corpuscles of the common 

 Paradoxure {Paradoxurus Bondar*)," by G. GuUiver, Esq., was next 

 read. 



" Referring to my notes concerning the red particles of this animal, 

 I was rather surprised to find that they appeared to be quite peculiar 

 in size, when compared with the particles of the other species of the 

 order Fera. Hence I have been led to examine again the blood- 

 corpuscles of the common Paradoxure, and those of two other species 

 of the genus. The result confirms the general accuracy of my first 

 observations, and as the subject appears to me both novel and inter- 

 esting, I am induced to bring it briefly before the Society. 



" The following measurements are expressed in fractional parts of 

 an English inch. The common-sized corpuscles are first noted, then 

 those of small and large size, and lastly the average deduced from a 

 computation of the whole. 



"1. Common Paradoxure {Paradoxuriis Bondar). 



1-5665 



1-6000 

 1-7110 

 1-4570 



Average . . 1-5693 



" 2. Two-spotted Paradoxure {Paradoxurus binotatus. Temm.) . 



1-457-2 

 1-4800 

 1-5052 

 1-6000 

 1-3555 



Average . . 1-4660 



"3. White-whiskered Paradoxure {Paradoxurus leucomystax. Gray). 



1-4500 

 1-4365 

 1-4000 

 1-6000 

 1-3200 



Average . . 1-4236 



• The animal in question is marked at the Zoological Gardens P. typns, 

 F. Cuv. ; and by this name I have previously mentioned it. But I have 

 lately been informed that it is the P. Bondar of authors. 



