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and spurred. Hodgson's Or. tibetanum still remains unique, I believe. 

 The localities assigned to many specimens in the British Museum are 

 unreliable. Thus the Burmese lineated or pencilled Kalij is assigned to 

 Bootan, and various Tenasserim squirrels, also to Bootan, all doubtless 

 from the same collection, but received with the erroneous locality from 

 the old India-house. The distinctions we recognise between Indian, 

 Indo-Chinese and Malayan faunce are little understood by naturalists 

 here who will have all alike, to be Indian. Griinther's Indian reptiles, 

 for example. About Sikhim and Asam monkeys. I look upon 

 assamensis (original specimen in India museum,) as a mere variety 

 (not unlikely an individual, var.) of rhesus, wanting the fulvous hue 

 of the hair on the hind-parts. M. pelops I know little of, but Jerdon 

 should get this at Masuri. Of the Lungoors, I know nothing of more 

 than one Himalayan species, which is Hodgson's scliistaceus. Does 

 true entellus range, into Asam, and is it not the Hunuman of the 

 table-laud of S. India? Is not priamus peculiar to the ghats and 

 mountainous country, as Johnii (verus) is certainly peculiar to the 

 W. ghats ? I do not remember who wrote the Review of Jerdon's 

 work in the Annals, and cannot refer to it here. Smythe has yet to 

 shoot the Shau, and perhaps the Tibetan Lynx. Is it the wild yak 

 he thinks of sending home alive ? The tame breed here as regularly as 

 domestic cattle. A young bull was calved last year, and a cow this year, 

 at the Zoological Gardens ; both females hornless. Pallas refers to wild 

 two-humped camels in the Mongolian deserts ; and not many years 

 ago the existence of wild yaks was doubted by Hutton and others. 

 In the long stretch of desert country between the Red Sea and the 

 valley of the Nile wild one-humped camels are numerous ; and I see 

 no reason why these should not be aboriginally wild, like genuine A sinus 

 vulgaris in Africa (the a. toenispus, Henglin). There is a fine male of the 

 latter now in the Zoological Gardens, a most decided and unmistakeable 

 true donkey or Onager ; and the series of wild asinine animals (includ- 

 ing zebras) is complete, every known race or species being 

 represented. All of the animals brought by Thompson were alive 

 when I left London and the Hornbills in first rate condition. The 

 Aceros nipalensis would be a grand prize ; have not both sexes 

 the rufous plumage in the nest ? Reversing the usual arrange- 

 ment, in Ehynchwa and in Turnix pugnax, the adult females are the 



