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and captive state, and notes on they management and feeding 
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while in confinement. 
Mr. W. R. Ogityie-Grant, F.Z.8,, sent for exhibition a named 
set of the Birds collected in Japan by Mr. M. P. Anderson in 
connection with the Duke of Bedford’s Exploration in Eastern 
Asia. No new species were obtained, but several of the specimens 
were of special interest as illustrating stages of plumage not 
represented in the British Museum. 
Mr, R. Lypexxer, F.Z.8., contributed a paper in which he 
described a transition in the general type of colouring from the 
wholly black Colobus guerezw in one direction, through several 
intermediate forms, towards the black-and-white C. caudatus, 
and in another direction towards C’. vellerosus. 
Jn a second communication Mr. LypexKer described a mounted 
specimen of the White-maned Serow (Vemorhedus argyrochetes 
Heude), of Szechuen, the first example of the species ever re- 
ceived in England, and perhaps in Europe. 
Mr. Ouprietp Tuomas, F.R.S., F.Z.S., read a paper on the 
Mammals collected in Japan by Mr. M. P. Anderson for His Grace 
the Duke of Bedford, and presented by the latter to the National 
Museum. The collection was one of the most valuable for scientific 
purposes which had ever been received from any one region. 
Over 600 specimens had been obtained, belonging to 50 species 
and subspecies, of which several were described as new. But 
the chief value of the collection lay in the fine series of properly 
localised specimens of species which had not been sent to Europe 
since the time of Temminck’s ‘ Fauna Japonica.’ By the help of 
these specimens the distribution of the species was fairly well 
shown, while the Museum would now possess examples of all the 
older known species suitable for comparison with their allies from 
other parts of Eastern Asia, such specimens having been hitherto 
conspicuous by their absence. 
Of the new forms special attention was directed to the fol- 
lowing :— 
Evoromys BEDFORDI®, sp. n. 
A Craseomys allied to H. rufocanus, but coloured more like 
£. glareolus, and with a longer, less hairy tail. 
Dimensions of the type :—Head and body 119 mm. ; tail 47; 
hind foot 20. 
fab. Shinshinotsu, Hokkaido. 
Type. Male. Original number 23. 
Eyvoromys ANDERSONT, sp. n. 
Allied to £. bedfordic, but with longer tail and conspicuously 
less powerful teeth. 
Dimensions :—Head and body 120 mm.; tail 54; hind foot 
18°5 
Hab, Tsunagi, N. Hondo. 
Pype. Male. Original number 76. 
