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the Peninsula. I add a list of desiderata for the Zoological Gardens. 

 You may smile at my enumerating common Vultures, Kites and 

 Crows, Frogs and Toads; hut these are just what are wanted — 

 what nohody thinks of sending. The Batrachia might he sent in 

 damp jars, and would endure the. voj r age without food, though 

 cockroaches might he given to theiu if availahle. N. B. There are 

 Australian Rallidcs and Pelicans in the Zoological Gardens ; also 

 Varanidcd, Scincid(S r and Snakes. Why' not also Indian ? and 

 operculated Shells (sent with opercle closed) as Ampullaria and Geri- 

 ihium telescopjium ; even our big Achatina with its pseud-opercle 

 closed. 



Mammalia. Gibbons — Hunuman Monkey and other species of 

 Presbytia — Wild Dog — Indian Wolf — common Bengal Fox, one in 

 Dublin Zoological Gardens, labelled — Jackal, G. aureus ! — Viverra 

 Zihetha — Arctonyx — Jungle-cats — 4-horned Antelope — Gayals and 

 common Buffaloes (fine, as those of Burma) — Tapir — Rhinoceros 

 Sondaicus (from Sunderbans or Burma) and Rh. Sumatranus — any of 

 the Himalayan ruminants — Tupaia — Melogale — Pteromys — Atlierura 

 — Porcupine from Chittagong or Tippera. 



Aves. Lories (any), — common Kites, 2 or 3 (not Brahmini) — 

 Limna'etus niveus(pl Jerdon's work) — Pontoaetus icthyaetus — Spilornis 

 clieela (especially, to contrast with Sp. Elgini) — Poliornis teesa — 

 Aquila fulvescens (2 or 3 to contrast with the allied African species) 

 — Aq. hastata — Ketupia Geylonensis — Urrua hengalensis — U. Goro- 

 inanda — Ninox scutellatus — Gyps Indicus and G. Bengalensis (not Oto- 

 gyps calvas. With the exceptions of the two common Bengal species 

 of Gyps, the series of Old World Vultures is complete. N. B. Neo- 

 phron percnopterus of Africa has a black bill, in India & flesh-coloured 

 bill !) — Barbets — Centropus rufipjennis (very desirable. N. B. The 

 two Indian Coels are doing well) — Corvus splendens ' and G. culminatus 

 (pair of each, especially the former) — Dendrocitta rufa (very accept- 

 aLle — Bhimraj — Shdnia — Sat Bhai (Malacocircus) — Bdyas (Ploceus, 2 

 or 3 pairs of each, which would doubtless breed) — Mainas of each 

 species, Stv/rnopastor, and especially Temenuchus, pagodarum (2 or 3 

 pairs of each) — Bengal Jungle-fowls, with white ear-lappet — Adjutants, 

 both species — Giconialeucocephala — Geronticuspapillosus — Threskiomis 

 melanocep/Jtalus; one already from Siam ! — Gallicrexcristatus — Gallinula ' 



