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Postscript. 



While the preceding pages were passing through the press, I received 

 from Dr. W. de Tatham at Bhiij a few additional specimens of mammals 

 and tortoises, of which I had not heen able to obtain examples at the time 

 of my visit. They are — 



Pteropus medius, mentioned at p. 223. The specimen sent agrees in 

 all essential points of structure and coloration with those from other parts 

 of India ; it has a total length of about 11*5 ruches, which is very nearly 

 the length of the middle finger ; the ears are 1*2 inch long and only 

 - 7 inch broad, while in other specimens from India the ears generally have a 

 greater breadth. Most of the Indian specimens also have a considerably 

 longer middle finger. 



Erinaceus pictus, see p. 223. An adult specimen of this species is 

 65 inches long ; in coloration it exactly agrees with the half grown one 

 from which my description was taken, except that the lower belly is less 

 brown, the white extending to nearly within the interfemoral space. In the 

 younger specimen the dentition is normal, agreeing (according to Owen's 

 Comparative Anat. and Phys., Ill, p. 308) with that of E. europcens, the 



formula being i. — -f- e. — + p. — + m. — = 36. The two ante- 



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rior incisors are very far apart and have the form of canines of Carnivora, the 

 third on each side is very much larger than the second, which again is con- 

 siderably smaller in the upper than in the lower jaw. What is considered 

 as a canine in the upper jaw, is by other Osteologists often accepted as the 

 first premolar. The true first premolar in the upper jaw is smaller than 

 the canine, the second premolar is minute, and in the adult specimen it is 

 altogether absent, it has probably become obsolete ; the last premolar is 

 tricuspid in upper and bicuspid in lower jaw ; the formula of the adult 



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dentition would, therefore, appear to he — + — -f-— - + — == 34, 



but there is a short space visible between the two premolars in the upper jaw, 

 while the first premolar is very close to the canine. 



Of tortoises Dr. Tatham sent me a specimen of the Testudo, mentioned 

 in my notice* on the Reptiles of Kachh ; it proved to be T. elegans, Schoef, 

 as recorded by Giinther, or Peltastes stellatus, (Schweig.), according to Gray. 

 (Suppl. to Cat. of Shield Kept., 1870, p. 8). 



The Emyda referred to in the same notice is, Dr. Anderson informs me, 



* Proceedings for May, p. 72. By an error, I stated that the species, which was 

 described to me by a native, is like T. Grayi, which specific name should be Leithii 

 of Giinther. 



