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duced anteally towards the eyes, nor reflected on the edge. The helix 

 too, is entire in the raungoose ; whereas in the Kathiah weasel, it has 

 a large simple fissure in the posterior part, resembling that of Martes 

 Flavigula. The front teeth stand free of the canines in the upper 

 jaw, in contact with them in the lower, wherein the intermediate ones 

 are ranged rather within the line of the rest of the teeth. Molars, 

 J. |. The great carnivorous tooth in the upper jaw has a small flat- 

 ish heel on the internal side, placed forwards, and at the base of 

 great cutting process. The same tooth in the lower jaw has no trans- 

 verse or lateral process ; but the third longitudinal tubercle is nearly 

 flattened on its crown, and the hindmost or fifth tooth in this jaw is 

 small, and nearly flat-topped. The hindmost or fourth molar of the 

 upper jaw runs transversely, and has two obtusely-conical points. 



A horrible offensive, yellowish grey fluid exudes from two open- 

 ings, placed laterally just within the sphincter ani. The scrotum 

 is nearly without hair, and not larger (including the testes) than a 

 marrow-fat pea. The omentum as delicate as a spider's web, and 

 without a particle of fat. 



The liver divided into six lobes. A small pea-like gall-bladder is 

 deeply imbedded in the largest lobe. The stomach is nearly pyriform, 

 and purely membranous ; the oesophagus entering it close to the 

 fundus. Length of stomach, 3^ inches ; greatest diameter, 1^ inch. 

 Spleen, If inch long, ^th of an inch in diameter. Coats of stomach 

 thin, almost transparent, Entire length of intestinal canal, four feet, 

 of uniform calibre, from the pylorus to the vent. No caecum. Length 

 of animal from snout to vent, 10 inches. This gives less than five times 

 the length of body to the intestines. Lungs, six lobes, four right, 

 two left. 



XL — Further Discove?y of Coal Beds in Assam. By Captain F. Jenkins. 



[Extract of a letter, dated Goalparah, 5th December, 1835.] 



I wrote you sometime back that we had fallen upon a shell lime- 

 stone in the Nowgong district, similar in all respects to that of Sylhet ; 

 there was every reason, therefore, to suppose, that we should find coal 

 associated with the limestone, as to the south of the Khdsia hills, 

 and 1 have just now the satisfaction to report that this has been 

 realized, and to send you small samples of coal that has been sent 

 down to me by Ensign Brodie. If I am not mistaken from the 

 appearance, it will turn out to be a valuable and highly bituminous 

 coal, and I shall be much obliged by your reporting upon it. A large 



