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Vidua concolor ? Cass. 

 Ardea goliath, Temm. 

 Nyctieorax caledonicus (Gmel.). 

 Tigrisoma tigrinmn (Gmel.). 

 Numida ptilonorhyncha, Rupp. 

 Craspedocephalus atrox. Gray ; and 

 Coluber constrictor 1 



From St. Lucia; presented by Lieut. Tyler, R.E. 

 Eunectes murinus, Wagler. 

 Python regius, Bibron. 

 Cyclura Collet, Gray. 



From Jamaica ; presented by Dr. A. Smith, 

 F.Z.S. &c. 

 Iguana tuberculata, Laur. 



A letter was read from Alexander Elphinston, Esq., H.E.I.C. 

 Civil Service, Bombay, dated Dhoolia, Sept. 1849, in which he stated 

 his intention of forwarding to Bombaj^, at his own expense, a collec- 

 tion of animals of which he desired the Society's acceptance. In this 

 interesting letter, which was transmitted by A. N. Shaw, Esq., F.Z.S., 

 Mr. Elphinston communicated several particulars relative to the dis- 

 tribution of species in Candeish and Goojerat, and having stated his 

 opinion " that England has a right to expect from her sons in the 

 colonies contributions to our National Zoological Society in London," 

 expressed his determination of continuing his active support to the 

 Institution during his residence in India. 



A letter was read from Capt. the Hon. H. Keppel, R.N., com- 

 municated by Rear-Admiral Bowles, V.P., in which he announced 

 that he had shipped a young female Urang-utan, on the 6th of Sep- 

 tember last, on board a merchant vessel from Singapore. 



The Secretary reported also that he was in correspondence with 

 the Hon. C. A. Murray, Mrs. ]\Iartin Stevenson, ]Mr. Duncan, Mr. 

 Grace, and Lieut. Tyler, R.E., in reference to collections which might 

 be expected from Egypt, Valparaiso, Whydah, Mogador, and St. Lucia. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Description of a new species of Ttjpaia discovered iu 

 Continental India by Walter Elliot, Esa. By G. R. 

 Waterhouse, Pres. Ent. Soc. etc. 



(Mammalia, PI. XIII.) 



Of the species of Tupaia about to be dsecribed, three specimens 

 were forwarded to me by W. Elliot, Esq., who, in a letter which ac- 

 companied them, states that they were procured from the hills between 

 Cuddapah and Nellox, in what may be termed the Eastern Ghats. 



Mr. Elliot, it appears, had abstained from describmg and naming 

 this animal from his not having the means of instituting a comparison 

 between it aiad the known species of the genus. From the compa- 

 rison which I have made, I am quite satisfied that it is distinct from 

 the three species found in the Indian islands, as well as from the 



