1886.] PROF. FLOWER ON A SPECIMEN OF ARMADILLO. 419 



that the Museum of Copenhagen had received in 1878 a specimen 

 of this mammal in spirit from Buitenzorg, Java, forwarded by the 

 late Mr. Kobke, Danish Consul at Batavia, and that he has been 

 informed by Mr. H. Winge that several specimens of it from the 

 same locality were in the Museo Civico of Genoa. 



A letter was read from Dr. A. B. Meyer, C.M.Z.S., communi- 

 cating the following remarks by Mr. K. G. Henke on a specimen 

 of a hybrid Grouse, in the Dresden Museum, referred to by Dr. 

 Collett in a previous communication : — 



" Dr. Collett has declared {supra, p. 225, note) a hybrid which 

 I have figured, ' Zeitschrift fiir die gesammte Ornithologie,' 1885, 

 p. 47> pi. iii-. ' to be clearly only a partial albino of Tetrao tetrix 

 fem.,' but without giving his reasons for this opinion. 



" I will not discuss the question now, whether Tetrao tetrix or 

 Lagopus albus was the father of this specimen, as it is treated and 

 refigured, not as a single example of its kind, but together with 

 others, similar and varying, in Dr. Meyer's forthcoming work 

 ' Unser Auer-,Birk- und Rackelwild,' which will be illustrated by 15 

 coloured folio plates. I only wish to remark here, that Dr. 

 Collett's view of the said specimen does not appear to be correct, as 

 supposing it really were a partial albino, a strong partial melanism 

 would still be present, to account for the many black patches 

 and markings, of which there is no trace in the female Tetrao tetrix 

 — a coincidence which no one will admit, and which never has been 

 observed. Besides, the albino of Tetrao tetrix, fem., has no such 

 regular markings as the specimen in question. 



" I therefore cannot agree with Dr. Collett, but am convinced that he 

 is mistaken in declaring the Dresden specimen to be a partial albino." 



Prof. Flower exhibited a specimen of an Armadillo, now belonging 

 to the Museum of the Scarborough Philosophical Society, but the 

 origin of which unfortunately appeared to be unknown. It was evi- 

 dently a member of the genus Tatusia, and closely allied to the common 

 T. novemcAncta or T.peba, from which it differed mainly in having the 

 whole of the carapace covered with a thick coating of light brown, 

 fine, but rather stiff hair, about an inch and a half in length. The 

 same kind of hair grew on the cheeks, the proximal portion of the 

 limbs, and (though less abundantly and shorter) on the whole under 

 surface of the body. The cephalic shield, the snout, the hands and 

 feet, and the tail (except quite at the base) were bare. The covering 

 of the hair of the back and sides was so thick as completely to conceal 

 the carapace, except near the antero-inferior margin of the scapular 

 region ; but the usual scutes and bands were seen to be present on 

 separating the hair, which only grew from the intervals between 

 them. The length of the head was 3|, of the body 8g, and 

 of the tail Sj inches. Unfortunately nearly the whole of the skull 

 had been removed, but some of the anterior teeth which remained 

 in the jaws were of very small size and appeared to indicate that 

 the animal was young. 



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