1885.] DR. G. H4RTLAUB ON A NEW PSITTACULA. 613 



satisfied that it was obtained originally on one of the higher hill- 

 ranges of Southern India. 



I was at first uncertain whether, after all, this apparently new 

 Paradoxurus might not be the P. zeylanicus, var. fuscus of Kelaart 

 (Prod. Faun. Zeyl. p. 39 ; P. montanus, Kelaart apud Blyth, J. A. S. B. 

 XX. pp. 161-184) ; but one of the typical specimens of this form 

 in the British Museum proves to be a slightly browner variety of 

 P. zeylonensis. I have very little doubt that the large tree-cat 

 mentioned by Surgeon-Major Bidie in the Government ' Manual of 

 the Nilagiri District,' p. 152, as having been obtained on the Animali 

 hills and at Kotagiri on the Nilgiris, is the species to which 

 attention is now called. If so this form has a considerable range in 

 the southern portions of the Syhadri, or Western Ghats. 



I hope before long to be able to lay before the Society a general 

 note on the species of Paradoxurus, but meantime I propose to name 

 the form here described after one of the best naturalists of Southern 

 India, and to defiue it thus : — 



Paradoxurus jerdoni, sp. nov. 



General structure apparently similar to that of the common P. 

 hermaphroditus (^ P. musanya, P. typus, P. bondar, &c.), except 

 that the fur is uniform in length without longer black-tipped hairs 

 on the body. Skull with anterior palatine foramina extending back 

 as far as the anterior pair of premolars. 



Colour of fur deep rich brown on head, shoulders, and limbs ; 

 back and sides the same but grizzled. Tail brown, with a long white 

 tip. Hairs and underfur of the body brown, except a long 

 subterminal grey ring on the longer hairs of the back and sides. 

 Vibrissse dark brown. 



. Dimensions approximately the same as in P. zeylonensis (head and 

 body about 20 inches), or rather larger. The skull measures 4*45 

 inches in length from behind the occipital condyles to the anterior 

 border of the premaxillaries. 



Hah. The higher ranges near the west coast of Southern India. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On a new Species of Parrot of the Genus Psittacula. 

 By Dr. G. Habtlaub, F.M.Z.S. 



[Eeceived May 26, 1885.] 

 (Plate XXXVIII.) 



In a small collection of birds' skins from Baranquilla, presented 

 of late to the Bremen Museum, I fouud a single specimen of a typical 

 Psittacula, apparently quite adult and very probably a male. After 

 having compared this little bird with ihePsittaculce of our collection — 

 (l) Ps.passerina,{roxa S.E. Brazil, (2) Ps. cyanochlora, Natt., from 



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