1862.] Proceedings oftlie Asiatic Society. 331 



The American Journal of Science and Arts, Vol. XXXIII. No. 98. 



Numismatic Chronicle No. 5 for March 1862. 



Westminster Eeview for April, 1862. 



The Literary Gazette, Nos. 195 to 198. 



Natural History Eeview for April, 1862. 



The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series, Vol. IX, 

 No. 52. 



Eevue et Magasin de Zoologie Nos. 1 and 2 for 1862. 



Eevue des Deux Mondes, Tome XXXVIII. for 15th March and 1st April, 

 1862. 



Comptes Eendus Hebdo'madaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences, 

 Tome*LIV. Nos. 9, 10, "LI and 12. 



Mahabhashya — Edited by Dr. J. E. Ballantyne, Vol. I. 



Christianity contrasted with Hindu Philosophy — By Dr. J. E. Ballantyne. 



Lectures on the Science of Language delivered at the Eoyal Institution — 

 By Prof. Max Midler. 



Makamat Hameedee. 



Uh June, 1862. La'lgopa'l Dtttt. 



Report of Curator, Zoological Department, February, 1862. 



During the long interval that has elapsed since the publication of 

 my last report, the Society's collection of Yertebrata has been 

 largely increased, and we have been favoured with numerous valuable 

 donations. 



1. From Col. A. P. Phayre, Chief Commissioner of British 

 Burma, a large collection principally of bird-skins, collected mostly 

 in the Tonghoo district of the valley of the Sitang and on the route 

 thither across the hills from that of the Irawadi, in 1860. Also 

 some specimens of mammalia, which are as follow. 



Viveeka. megaspila, nobis, ii. s. (or distinguishable race). Plat 

 skins from vicinity of Prome. There are four recognisable races of 

 Asiatic Civet, all of which differ from the African V. civetta, L., in 

 the erectile mane commencing between the shoulders instead of 

 between the ears. Three of them are of the same large size as the 

 African species, the fourth being (so far as I have seen) constantly 

 much smaller. One, V. zibetha, L., is well known from Buffon's 

 figure, and is at once distinguished from all the others by the compa- 

 rative indistinctness of its body-markings. It is common in Bengal, 



