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limbs, deep black, mixed witk whitish inside the fore-arm and in front of the leg ; 

 crown, occiput, sides of the head, or what are called the whiskers, together with the 

 beard, brownish white, having a faint tinge of the hue of the body upon the vertex ; the 

 whiskers are not remarkably lengthened, though very copious, and do not stand out 

 in the remarkable manner stated, as well as figured, of those of C cephalopterus. 

 All that I could learn of this monkey was, that it bore the name of the Travancore 

 Monkey in Madras. The S. cephalopterus is only known to inhabit Ceylon. 



" The remainder of Dr. Coles' donation consists of the following specimens and 

 species : — 



Galeopithecus Temminckii, 

 Pteropus medius, 



Taphozous hrevicaudus. Nobis, (a new species, entirely distinct 

 from another in the Museum, which again differs from T. longi- 

 manus of Hardwicke, the only Indian species as yet described,) 

 Sciurus maximus, (three specimens,) 



hippurus, 



• erythroeus ? 



Pteromys petaurista, 

 Gerhillus Indicus, and 



Meminna kanchil, (a nearly white specimen from Malacca.) 

 " Of these it will be sufficient to remark, that the specimens of Sciurus maximus, 

 with those previously in the Museum, illustrate the gradations of variation iu colour 

 to which this species is subject: while I may also mention that all the examples of 

 genuine Pteromys petaurista which I have seen, whereof the habitat was known with 

 certainty, were brought from Travancore ; * though it is doubtless the same species 

 of which Major Forbes gives so interesting an account in his ' Journal of Eleven 

 Years Residence in Ceylon:' the allied Pi. nitidus comes always from the Malay 

 Peninsula and Islands, and the Pt.magnificusixoxa. the Himalaya. The GalcBopithecus 

 Temminckii is entirely distinct from the species inhabiting the Phillipines, as lately 

 shewn by Mr. Waterhouse. 



Mr. Ross's donation consists almost entirely of Birds, but contains three skins of 

 Mammalia, and one Reptile ; viz : — 



Pteropus medius ? (most probably distinct, but I wait for further 



data before deciding,) 

 Megaderma lyra, 



Herpestes griseus ; and the Reptile, 

 Varanus binotatus (Lacerta binotata, Kuhl.) 

 The following are the Birds : — 

 Upupa Epops, 

 Alcedo Bengalensis, 

 Halcyon Smyrnensis, 

 Merops Phillipinensis, (adult and young,) 

 Coracias Indie a, 



* The Society has since received this species from Moulraein : and the Pt. Oral of Lt. Tickell, 

 (described in the Calcutta Journal of Natural History, No. 7, p. 401,) would seem to be no 

 other. — Cur. As. Soc. 



