1904.] ON^ THE DOUBLE HEAD OP A DORSET LAMB. 373 



Mr. J. ffolliott Darling, F.Z.S., exhibited some photographs of 

 a very large specimen of the Woolly Monkey {Lagothrix humholdti) 

 SiXiA made the following remai'ks : — , 



" This specimen, seen and photographed in Southern California 

 last year, was a male and weighed about 55 lbs., and, when 

 standing erect, was about 3 feet in height. He was very fat and 

 much the largest example of this species I have ever seen. 

 He was not only remarkable for his immense size, but for his 

 partiality for standing and walking erect and the intelligent 

 manner in which he used his tail to assist him in that position ; 

 at times he supported himself by it somewhat after the manner 

 of a Kangaroo, and at others clung to an iron bar by it and so 

 helped to keep an equilibrium. 



" I attribute the fact of such a delicate monkey having lived 

 for many years in confinement so far north of his regular habitat, 

 on the vipper waters of the Amazon, Rio Negro, and Orinoco 

 rivers, to the extreme equability of the climate on the seaboard 

 -of Mexico and to his spending every day in the open air." 



Dr. Walter Kidd, F.Z.S., i-ead the following note on the 

 ai'rangement of the hair on the nasal region of the Parti-coloured 

 Bear [uShcropus inelanoleucus) : — 



" In the memoir of Professor Lankester, published last year in 

 the ' Transactions ' of the Linnean Society, on the Affinities of 

 jEluropus melanoleiccits, no reference is made to the mode of 

 arrangement of the hair on the nasal region. This is of the 

 Derivative type (sketched on blackboard), in which respect 

 uEluropits differs from all the XJrsidfe as well as from Procyon, 

 and in which it resembles the Felid^e. It can hardly be claimed 

 that a character so superficial and intrinsically unimportant as 

 this can contradict the veiw of the affinities of this creature, 

 which are based on the more stable osteological and dental 

 characters. If it be not a character indicating affinity, this 

 arrangement of the nasal hair-stream may be held to have arisen 

 in one of two ways — either by being simply correlated with the 

 broad zygomatic region of ^luropus, or as the result of some 

 habit peculiar to it. Whatever the explanation may be, the fact 

 seems to be worth recording." 



Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited and made remarks upon the 

 double head of a Dorset Lamb. The heads were of unequal 

 development and united from the orbit to the base of the skulls. 

 In the longer head the palate was cleft along its entire 

 length, the lower jaw having a complete set of deciduous incisors. 

 The smaller head had also the palate completely cleft and a 

 small opening in place of the mouth ; there was no trace of 

 either tongue or lower jaw. The upper or dorsal aspect of the 



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