DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. Ill 



Jdammals presented by Mr. E. G. Herbert and tbe Federated 

 Malay States Museum. 



The following is a list of the more important acquisitions 

 arranged in geographical order : — 



Europe. 



2 Badgers, 3 Otters and a Marten from the West of Ireland ; 

 purchased. 



The 5th thoracic vertebrate of a Blue Whale {Balcenoptera 

 musculus) stranded on the N^W. Shore of Colonvsay Island, 

 Hebrides; ijresented hy Murdoch M'NeiU, Esq. 



The tympanic bone of the same Blue Whale; iwesented hy 

 Philip Mair, Esq. 



A number of Cetacean tympanic bones from the Harris 

 Whaling Station; presented by CarlF. Herlofson, E)sq. 



Head of a Common Dolphin (Delphinus delphis) stranded at 

 Hayle Bay, N. Cornwall; head, paddles and tail-fin of a Pilot 

 Whale [Globicephala mehcna) stranded at Balmedie ; a Risso's 

 Dolphin (Grampus griseus) stranded at W^embury, S. Devon; 

 and jaws and paddles of various small Cetacea stranded on the 

 British Coasts; presented hy the Board of Trade. 



Asia. 



2 blades of baleen of a Rorqual [Balceivoptera sp.) stranded 

 at Yiziadrug, Bombay; presented hy N . B. Kinnear, Esq. 



A few bones of a Balcenoptera from Khanduli Peninsula, 

 Siam ; presented hy the Federated Malay States Museum. 



A skull with antlers of a Sambar [Rusa uivicolor) from 

 Central India; presented hy Lieut. -Col. Eric H. Sharman. 



4 Mammals from Sumatra, including a new Fruit Bat {Dya- 

 copterus hrooksi); presented hy Cecil J. Brooks, Esq. 



10 Mammals collected by Mr. G, Forrest in Yunnan; pre- 

 senfed hy Col. Stephenson F. Clarke, C.B. 



7 skulls of Malayan Mammals from the collection of the late 

 Dr. A. R. Wallace, F.R.S.; purchased. 



109 Mammals from Ceylon; presented hy W. W. A. Phillips, 

 Esq. 



51 Mammals collected by Col. J. E. B. Hotson at Shiraz, 

 Persia; presented hy the Bomhay Natural History Society. 



Skin and skeleton of a Pere David's Deer [Elaphurus damdi- 

 anus) ; presented by the Zoological Society. 



25 Mammals from the Naga Hills, collected by iMr. J. P. 

 Mills, and 59 Mammals from Assam collected by Mr. H. W. 

 Wells ; presented hy the Bomhay Natural History Society. 



58 Mammals from Siam; presented hy E.' G. Herbert, Esq. 

 39 Mammals from Ceram, including 6 new species, of rodent 

 and a new Marsupial (Rhynchomeles prattorum) ; purchased. 



26 Mammals from North Burma colleoted by Messrs. F. 

 Kingdon Ward and P. M. Leonard, including the types of five 

 new species; presented by the Bomhay Natural History Society. 



