1895.] PROF. G. B. HOWES ON THE SKXIIL OF A BABBIT, 521 



previously received by the Society was the Female presented by 

 Mr. A. Grote in 1867, which was figured in the Society's Trans- 

 actions (vol. vii. pis. xxxvii.-xxxviii.) ; see also P. Z. S. 1867, 

 p. 821. 



I also take this opportunity of mentioning that the animal pre- 

 sented to the Society on the '2Sth March, 1894, by Mr. A. Murray, 

 and entered as a Kinkajou (as it was called by the donor), appears 

 to be a specimen of the rare American Carnivore Brissaricyon alleni, 

 Thomas, P. Z. S. 1S80, p. 397, pi. xxxviii., with the apical portion 

 of the tail removed. Mr. Murray informs us that this specimen 

 was captured in the woods at Bastrica on the Essequibo River, 

 British Guiana. 



Referring to his note on the occurrence of the Barbary Sheep 

 {Ovis tragelajphus) in Egypt, read on January 15th last (see 

 P. Z. S. 1895, p. 85), Mr. Sclater exhibited the head of this sheep, 

 obtained by Captain J. G. Dimning near Wady Haifa, which, at 

 the time of reading his note, Mr. Sclater had spoken of as " not 

 having been received," but which had arrived since. 



Mr. Sclater said there could be no doubt as to the specimen in 

 question belonging to the Barbary Sheep, Ovis tracjelaphus. Captain 

 Dunning, having unfortunately lost his life in Uganda, Mr. Sclater 

 stated that he proposed to deposit the present specimen in the 

 British Museum. 



Mr, Sclater exhibited the skin of a Humming-bird {Antlwcephala 

 herlepschi, Salvin, Ibis, 1894, p. 120), which he had received in a 

 letter addressed to him by Mr. Eobert B. White, C.M.Z.S., from 

 Palencia, a department of Cauca, Eepublic of Colombia, April 15th, 

 1895. Mr. White observed that this species until recently was 

 supposed to be unknown in Colombia ; he had lately found it, but 

 only in one locality, in the extreme south of the Magdalena Yalley, 

 where it was by no means easy to obtain it. 



Prof. G. B. Howes exhibited the skull of a Eabbit destitute of 

 the second pair of upper incisors, which he owed to the acumen of 

 his Laboratory Attendant, J. E. Eedsull. 



The animal from which this specimen had been obtained was 

 an old " Hare-coloured " or " Belgian " Eabbit, purchased in the 

 market, and was in no other respect observed to be abnormal. 

 Prof. Howes had met with specimens showing the absence of one 

 of the smaller incisors on the right and on the left side, and one 

 in which the left tooth was wanting, that of the right being 

 greatly hypertrophied, its alveolus being almost as large in area 

 as that of the first incisor *. As the skull exhibited was the first, 

 among some thousands which had passed through his hands, in 



} Specimens of these were exhibited. 



