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Centropus Senegalensis, Ill., Swains. Jard. Nat. Lib. vol. (Orn.) 
viii. ; B. of W. Africa, p. 185. pl. 20, 1837. 
Hab. Cape Palmas and Accra. 
Found on or near the ground. 
Peristera tympanistera, Temm. 
Hab. Fernando Po (June). 
A female was killed on the nest, which was composed of small 
roots, and contained two white eggs; the nest was placed on the 
broken part of a small tree, about three feet from the ground. Irides 
hazel, bill and feet reddish plum-colour. 
Chetopus Adansonii, Swains. Jard. Nat. Lib. vol. (Orn.) viii. ; B 
of W. Africa, p. 217, 1837. 
Hab. Central Africa. 
This specimen was shot nearly opposite Iddah, about two hundred 
miles up the river Niger (August). 
Glareola torquata, Temm. 
Hab. Accra. 
Rhynchops Orientalis, Riippell, Atl. Zool. pl. 24. 
Hab. Mouth of the river Nin (August). 
Mr. Fraser also called attention to two specimens of a species of 
Manis, which he laid before the Meeting. These, he observed, agreed 
in their characters with the species described by Mr. Gray in a com- 
munication read at the Meeting for February 28th of the present 
year, under the name Manis multiscutata. They were procured by 
Mr. Fraser at Fernando Po, and upon his return to England he had, 
upon comparing the specimens on the table with others of the Manis 
tetradactyla, perceived those differences upon which Mr. Gray founds 
the M. multiscutata. The animals, judging from their bones, were 
evidently not adult; the largest measured thirty inches in length, of 
which the head and body were twelve inches, and the tail eighteen 
inches. He had kept them alive for about a week at Fernando Po, 
and allowed them the range of a room, where they fed upon a small 
black ant, which is very abundant and troublesome in the houses 
and elsewhere. Even when first procured they displayed little or 
no fear, but continued to climb about the room without noticing his 
occasional entrance. They would climb up the somewhat roughly- 
hewn square posts which supported the building with great facility, 
and upon reaching the ceiling would return head foremost; some- 
times they would roll themselves up into a ball and throw themselves 
down, and apparently without experiencing any inconvenience from 
the fall, which was in a measure broken upon reaching the ground 
by the semi-yielding scales, which were thrown into an erect posi- 
tion by the curve of the body of the animal. In climbing, the tail, 
with its strongly pointed scales beneath, was used to assist the feet ; 
and the grasp of the hind feet, assisted by the tail, was so powerful, 
that the animal would throw the body back (when on the post) ina 
horizontal position and sway itself to and fro, apparently taking 
