August 10, 1841. 
William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
A letter from the Earl of Derby was read. This letter is dated 
August 7, 1841, and announces the arrival of a pair of the African 
Musk Deer (Moschus aquaticus, Ogilby); one of them (a female) is 
alive, and in good health, in his Lordship’s menagerie. Having two 
skeletons of this animal, his Lordship has directed one of them to be 
forwarded as a present to the Society. 
A letter from Dr. Cox, dated Naples, March 28, 1841, was read ; 
itrefers to some engravings of a deformed fcetus which this gentleman 
had sent for exhibition at one of the Society’s scientific meetings. 
A letter from the Society’s corresponding member Dr. Poey was 
read. In this letter, which is dated Havannah, June 26, 1841, Dr. 
Poey informs the Society that he has forwarded for the Menagerie a 
living Raccoon, and he moreover makes some observations upon its 
habits. 
A letter from Edward Blyth, Esq., was next read. This letter is 
addressed to the Curator, and is written by Mr. Blyth on his passage 
to India; the writer relates some facts respecting various Mammals 
which have been communicated to him by his fellow-travellers. 
Lieut. Beagin, upon being shown some drawings of species of Gib- 
bons, at once, in a figure of the Hylobates leucogenys, Ogilby, recog- 
nised an animal which he had met with, and examined, in the Ma- 
labar jungles. ‘ Lieut. Beagin,” observes Mr. Blyth, “has frequently 
seen this species in the Malabar ghauts, generally in groups of eight 
or ten, among which were brown individuals.” ‘‘ They appear to be 
unknown on the Coromandel side, but extend eastward to the Neil- 
gherries ; inhabiting upland jungles, chiefly at about 2000 feet above 
the sea-level.” 
“The same gentleman is well acquainted with the Semnopithecus 
Johnii, which I observe is incidentally noticed in Harkness’s work on 
the Aborigines of the Neilgherry hills, p. 61. This species is com- 
mon enough in the depths of the forest, but never approaches the 
houses like the Entellus.” 
Mr. Blyth is also informed by Lieut. Beagin of the existence of a 
true Ibex, upon the Neilgherries, with long and knotty horns, curved 
backwards, and having a considerable beard, in which characters it 
differs from the Himalayan Ibex. “It keeps to the loftiest and most 
inaccessible crags, like the other Ibices. He has seen it repeatedly, 
in troops of a dozen or more individuals, and often endeavoured to 
obtain a specimen, but without success.” 
“The Kemas hylocrias, Ogilby, or ‘Jungle Sheep,’ (identified 
from one of my drawings,) is very generally, it appears, found in the 
hilly jungles of Peninsular India, keeping to the thick cover, and 
always met with solitarily, or in pairs. It is a very timid and shy 
Nos. CII. & CIV.—Procrepines or tHE Zoot. Soc. 
