48 Sceintific Intelligence. [No. l r 



Scientific Intelligence. 



Mr. T. Tomlinscm, late Superintendent of the Barrackpore Park, has 

 recently succeeded in hatching an Ostrich hy placing the fresh-laid egg 

 in a hox lined with straw and exposing it to the sun by day for some 

 weeks, keeping it under a domestic fowl during the night. To 

 prevent one side of the egg being more exposed than the other, it 

 was occasionally turned over. The new born bird is doing well. 



Col. Dalton from Chota-Nagpur announces the discovery of a vein 

 of lead in a hill named Puttia near the village of Pelowa, Tuppeh 

 Ramkola, in Sirgooja. 



From an analysis of the specimen forwarded by Col. Dalton, it 

 appears to be pure galena with a small trace of silver and the ore is 

 tractable. When fairly cleared, its value would be in England from 12£ 

 to 13£ per ton. An attempt to work the mine was made, but the 

 outturn not proving profitable, it was abandoned. 



The following is from our late Curator : — 



Belmont, St. Briavel's, 



W. Gloucestershire, Dec. 2, 1864. 



My dear G-rote, — In the Reader for November 19th, you will read 

 that a paper was read by me at the Zoological Society on November 

 8th ; but I was not there, having left a shoi*t paper with Sclater. In 

 the Proceedings, p. 335 of our Journal, I observe ' Felis Jacquemontii 1 

 mentioned. This I consider to be merely the longer-furred mountain 

 variety of F. chaus ; F. ornata too, I now refer to F. torquata,F. Guv. ; 

 and celidogaster turns out to be African, and distinct from viverrina, 

 F. torquata of Sykes being a striped domestic Indian cat, — at least 

 identical with the latter, whether or not descended from domestic 

 stock. A dead Tiger from Barrackpore is mentioned in the same page 

 of the Journal. I hope this was skeletonized, because I could get 

 you a Megaceros skeleton in exchange for it ! Lastly, about the " new 

 species of Varranus" in the same page, I presume this to be the 

 Hydrosawrus noticed by me from the Andamans and Nicobars, which 

 I could not perceive to differ structurally from R. Salvator. I suppose 



