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Baboon (CYNOCEPHALUS PORCARIUS). The last is, I believe, the first 
instance of a hybrid monkey on record. The infantile specimen resem- 
bles much the young of the NEMESTRINUS, but has the considerably 
more developed tail of the Porcartus. The two parents had been 
long kept together. 
1X. Lt. Beavan, now with the Darjiling sappers. Skull of an 
Otter (Aonyx), killed near the road from Calcutta to Barrackpore. 
Also sundry birdskins. 
X. Lt. Forbes, late 2nd B. N. I. A pair of TETRAOGALLUS 
TIBETANUS, Gould. 
XJ]. Lt. Campbell, H. M. 90th Regt. A skin of DiomEDEA 
EXULANS, L. 
XII. His Excellency Earl Canning, Viceroy and Governor-General 
of India. The carcass of an adult male Giraffe. I much wished to 
have had this prepared as a stuffed specimen ; but owing to the pro- 
tracted absence from duty of our head taxidermist, the skin could not 
be properly set up. ‘The skeleton, however, has been preserved ; and 
is that of a considerably larger animal than was the female already 
mounted as a skeleton, the carcass of which was presented to the 
Society by Viscount Hardinge. 
XIII. Lt.-Col. Nuttall, late in command of the Arakan battalion. 
A few bottles of snakes, of well known species ; and one containing 
numerous specimens of TEREDO NAVALIS extracted from thei perfora- 
tions. A water snake in this collection, new to the Society’s museum, 
is the ArurtA CaPENOIDES of Gray’s Catalogue of the snakes im the 
British Museum. 
XIy. J. F. Galiffe, Esq. Several living examples of GEcKo 
veERUS, from the vicinity of Calcutta. 
XV. J. H. Gurney, Hsq., M. P., of Catton Hall, near Norwich. 
Skin of Fatco pEREGRINUS, L., from Inverness; MILVUS ATER, 
(Gmelin), @ from Tangier, and specimen in immature plumage ; 
M. arrinis, Gould, from Australia; Gyps vulgaris, Savigny, (G. 
Ruppellii, Pr. Bonap), young, from Natal, SERINUS MERIDIONALIS, 
Pr. Bonap, 2g 1, from Algeria and ARDEOLA comaTa, (Pen.) in 
winter dress, from Natal. 
Mr. Gurney writes—“TJI have a good series of kites from Chima 
and one specimen from Japan ; but my series of Indian kites is not so 
good as it ought to be, and I have none from Ceylon. I have not a 
