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the world. There was no record of its having been found any where 

 but in the locality from whence these specimens were brought. Mr. 

 Hincks stated, that among some Californian plants received from Lon- 

 don, had been found what appeared to be a Spiranthes gemmipara. 



Mr. Strickland read to the Section a Catalogue of the Birds found 

 in Corfu and the Ionian Islands^ by Capt. H. M. Drummond, 42d R. 

 H. The total number of species in the list is 198 ; of these 159 are 

 British, 38 are found on the European continent, but not in Britain, and 

 one, the Calamoherpe olivetorum, Strickland, has hitherto been found 

 only in the Ionian Islands, where it is very common during the sum- 

 mer. 



The next paper was a similar list by the same gentleman, of the 

 birds of Creie, made during a visit to that Island in May and June, 1843, 

 in company with Capt. Graves, of H. M. S. Beacon. From the short- 

 ness of the author's stay in Crete, this list is less complete than the 

 last ; the total of species observed was 105, of which 86 are British 

 and 19 continental. It is remarkable that the common sparrow of 

 Crete is the Fringilla cisalpina, while in the Ionian Islands it is re- 

 placed by the F. domestica. 



Prof. Owen read a continuation of his Report on the Fossil Mam- 

 malia of Great Britain. In the previous parts of the Report he had 

 treated of the Carnivora and Marsupiata : in this he confined himself 

 to an examination of the vegetable-feeders. Remains of the mam- 

 moth, of which he believed there was only one species, the Elephas 

 primogenius of Cuvier, had been found in abundance in various parts 

 of Great Britain, and not less than three thousand teeth had been found 

 in various places. These teeth varied in appearance with age, and had 

 thus led to the supposition that there were other species of mammoth. 

 The remains of the mastodon found in Suffolk and Yorkshire, were un- 

 doubtedly identical with those of the miocene beds of France, thus 

 making but one European species, the Mastodon angustidens. Bones 

 of an extinct species of rhinoceros had been found in various parts of 

 Great Britain. It possessed two horns, and was undoubtedly different 

 from existing species. The teeth also of a species of hippotamus had 

 often been found, as in the cave at Kirksdale and other limestone rocks. 

 In the Isle of Wight two distinct genera of pachyderms had been 

 found ; the Palseotherium and Anoplotherium. Of the former genus, 

 there appears to have been six or seven species, and of the latter three. 

 The teeth and fragments of bones of more uncommon forms still, had 

 been found in the Isle of Wight and in Suffolk, which had been refer- 

 red to animals of distinct genera, and called Chaeropotamus and Hy- 

 rseotherium. Remains of species of the genus Sus had also been 

 found by Dr. Buckland. Of the Ruminantia, the Irish elk, as it has 



