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guished from the R. Americana in being about one-fifth less, and in 

 the tarsi being reticulated and feathered below the knee. 



Sivatherhim. — M. Geoffroy St Hilaire and M. De Blainville 

 have laid before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris^ the results 

 of their inquiries regarding the nature of this interesting fossil ani- 

 mal, discovered in the valley of the Markonda, in the southern dis- 

 trict of the Himalaya. The first is of opinion that it is a species of 

 antediluvian giraffe, and has proposed the title of Cameleop. primi- 

 genus for it. M. De Blainville, again, although he allows it to belong 

 to the group of the ruminants, considers it far removed from the 

 giraffes, and enters into a lengthened detail of his reasons for this 

 difference of opinion. If his arguments are correct, these remains will 

 belong to an animal which cannot be ranked in any of the known 

 genera of Mammalia. 



Surnia Nyctea, Dumeril. — On the 13th of February last a fine 

 male snowy owl was shot three miles below Selby-on-the-moor, where 

 it had been observed by the miller, at a mill adjoining, for a day 

 or two previous. The moor is well stocked with rabbits, and the owl 

 was most probably preying upon them : it appeared very shy, and 

 when pinioned by the shot was extremely fierce. It was ultimately 

 got into a sack and killed by pressure, when it came into the pos- 

 session of my friend A. Clapham, Esq. of Potternewton, near Leeds. 

 — H. Denny. 



Cepola ruhescens, Linn. — Mr P. W. Maclagan informs us that he 

 has lately procured a specimen of this fish, which was caught off 

 Dunure, seven miles south of Ayr, on a whiting line baited with a 

 mussel. Its length is 15| inches. The fisherman who brought it 

 had seen another about six weeks ago — March 20, 1837. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Botanical Societv of Edinburgh, Nov. 10, 1836. — The first 

 meeting of the winter session was held this evening. Professor 

 Graham in the chair. The following members were elected: — 

 Resident, Dr Andrew Douglas Maclagan ; Non- Resident, Mr Ro- 

 bert Ball, Dublin ; The Rev. George Gordon, Birnie, Elginshire ; 

 Mr Edwin Lees, Worcester ; Dr D. C. Macreight, London ; Mr 

 M. J. F. Sidney, Morpeth ; Mr W. A. Stables, Park, Nairnshire ; 

 Mr W. Thompson, Belfast; Mr H. C. Watson, Thames-Ditton, Sur- 



