238 ON SPECIMENS OF FOSSIL BONES FROM CYPRUS. [Apr. 15, 



ears blackish, with a conspicuous patch of white hairs in the lower 

 part of the conch ; sides of face grizzled like the back, but more 

 greenish ; nose blackish, chin whitish ; limbs and tail black ; belly 

 and underparts pale whitish grey : whole length of body about 

 13 in. ; tail 17 in. 



Hah. Forests of Latuka Mountains, Northern Uganda. 



Ohs. Closely alHed to C. leucampyx of West Africa, but distin- 

 guished by its white ear-patches, blacker head, greyer back, and 

 much paler colour beneath. 



[P.S. July \st. — Herr Oscar Neumann, who has examined this 

 Monkey, is of opinion that it is nearly allied to, if not identical 

 with, Gercojyithecus stuhlman7ii of Matschie (Sitzsb. Ges. naturf. 

 Fr. Berlin, 1893, p. 225). This is possibly the case, but the 

 description does not quite agree with our specimen.] 



2. A Panda {jElurus fulgens)., from Northern India, obtained 

 by purchase on March 4th. This scarce animal, which is the 

 third specimen received by the Society, was in a weak state on 

 arrival and unfortunately did not live long. 



3. Another collection of ten Indian Birds, presented by Mr. E. 

 W. Harper, F.Z.S., all belonging to species new to the Collection. 

 Amongst them the Stork-billed Kingfisher {Felargopsis gurial) 

 and the Mountain- Thrush (Oreocincla dauma) are particularly 

 interesting. 



Prof. Bell, F.Z.S., exhibited two arms of an injured Starfish of 

 the genus Luidia, from the west coast of Ireland, which had 

 undergone repair at their free ends. These i-egenerated parts 

 were unlike the rest of the arm, and had a striking though not 

 exact resemblance to the free ends of the arms of an Astropecten. 



Dr. Forsyth Major, F.Z.S., exhibited some selected specimens 

 from a collection of fossil bones recently received by the Natural 

 History Museum from Cyprus, where they had been discovered in 

 caves by Miss Dorothy M. A. Bate, who started last year for that 

 island with the express purpose of discovering and exploring 

 ossiferous caverns. 



The remains proved to be those of a pigmy Hippopotamus, 

 about half the size of a middle-sized Hippopotamus amphibius, 

 and could not be distinguished from Cuvier's "Petit Hi23popota7ne 

 fossile" {3. mimotics Blainv.), which was smaller than the so- 

 called " H. minutus" of Malta and otherwise difierent. Cuvier's 

 description had been based on scanty remains in the Paris Museum 

 and from private collections in Bordeaux and Brussels, all of them 

 without any record of their origin, but which had ultimately (Oss. 

 Foss. 4th ed. ii. p. 490, 1834) been supposed to come from a place, 

 never identified before nor after, between Dax and Tartas in the 

 South of France. Dr. Forsyth Major now suggested that the 

 fossils described by Cuvier wei'e, in reality, from Cyprus also. 



