648 Miscellaneous. [Dec. 



Specimens of the fossil bones, kankar, and rocks extracted from the bed 

 of the Jamna — by Lieut. T. S. Burt, Engineers. 



These form a valuable addition to the fossils presented in the name of Captain 

 E. Smith at the last Meeting:, and they contain the following; bones not found in 



that series : 



14. Fragments of the tusk of an elephant : one piece of very large size. 

 The patella or kneepan of ditto. 



13. Teeth of the camel ? 



15. Tooth of a horse. 



Part of the jaw of a human skull, and one other bone, were evidently recent, 

 burning before the blowpipe, &c. whereas those in the fossil state did not contain the 

 slightest trace of animal matter, and were of much higher specific gravity than or- 

 dinary bones : the animal matter seemed principally replaced by carbonate of lime 

 and clay iron. Drawings of the three teeth, marked as above, 13, 14, 15, have been 

 inserted in the Plate of Captain Smith's collection, (PI. xxv. of the present number.) 



Lieut. Burt also presented a collection of nine species of shells found in 

 the bed cf the Jamna at Kdrim Khan. 



Captain E. Smith's notes on the kankar formation, and on the fossil bones, 

 collected in the Jumna river, were then read. 



Also a letter from Dr. H. H. Spry, on the subject of the fossil shells, 

 presented by him at a former Meeting. 



[Both of these are printed in the present number.] 



A map of a route from Hoshangabad to the Fort of Makrai, in the Kali- 

 bhit hills, was presented in the name of Lieut. R. H. Miles, with remarks 

 on the Goand inhabitants, and on the features of the country, by the same 

 officer. 



A note on the climate of the fossil elephant, by the Rev. R. Everest, was 

 read. 



[These will be printed in an early number.] 



Thanks were voted for the several contributions of the evening. 



X. — Miscellaneous. 

 [original communications.] 

 \.—Note on the Tailor Bird's Nest. By Lieut. Gifford. 

 " I send you a tnilor bird's nest along with the Journal of the Asiatic Society, in 

 which I see a description is given of it. This is the third nest I have found ; the first 

 one was built in a banghen bush ; the two last in a low thick shrub (name I know not,) 

 but the natives make a reddish dye from the flower, which is a very light yellow 

 colour, with pretty large leaves. 



The specimen I send you was constructed of three green living leaves, with two 

 small old (dry) ones, to fill up a space where the living ones would not meet. The 

 leaves were sewn together with raw and spun cotton ; the bird is a light brown 

 above, and a dirty white below, about four inches in length from tip of bill to end 

 of tail .• the m&lit call the bird Phutki." 



