938 Asiatic Society. [No. 119. 



Pelicanus rufescens ff), Gmelin,* female. 



Of these, the Otus, Pastor pagodorum and P. fuscus, Alauda, MotacUla, Pyrrhu- 

 lauda, Tadorna, Ami Pelicanus, (seven species,) are new to the collection; and the 

 remainder have replaced old and very inferiorly mounted specimens, and in several 

 instances have added the other sex, in a different state of plumage to what was 

 previously in the Museum 



The only othei" Vertehrata procured, consist of a Squirrel {Sciurus palmarum), 

 a fine specimen of the Dhamna Snake {Caluher Dhamna, Cantor), and the Crocodile 

 before mentioned, which is in process of being set up, while its skeleton is also pre- 

 paring, and several of the viscera have been preserved in spirits. 



A number of Insects have also been collected in the neighbourhood ; and several 

 of the Bird Skins from Tenasserim and the Himalaya, noticed in my Report for last 

 month, have been mounted. The present being the only season at which fresh spe- 

 cimens of animals will bear to be brought from any distance in available condition, 

 1 continue to spare no pains to induce the Shikarees and others to supply us with cis 

 many species as they can procure ; the duplicates of many are valuable for purposes 

 of exchange and transmission to other Museums, and while the examination of such 

 enables me to gain a more thorough knowledge of their various kinds, a rectification of 

 many synonyms will doubtless accrue from the intercourse which it is thus sought 

 to establish with Museums in different countries, and which it is to be regretted is not 



more general and extensive than at present. 



I am, Sir, 



Yours obediently, 



Z)ecem6er 3rc?, 1841. Edward Blyth. 



Read letter from Mr. Secretary Boshby, of the 10th November last, transmitting 

 copies of Registers of the rise and fall of the Tide at Prince of Wales' Island and 

 Singapore, for the months of April, May, and June, 18.41, together with transcript of a 

 memorandum which accompanied the Registers. 



Ordered — That the thanks of the Society be conveyed to the Government for the 

 Registers in question. 



For the Presentations and Contributions, the thanks of the Society were accorded. 



out of Europe. Mons. Temminck, however, had already enumerated this species in his list of Eu- 

 ropean birds met with in Japan, and it was obtained by the late Sir A. Burnes on the Indus. 

 Here it would appear to be very rare, being quite unknown to our taxidermists. 



* This agrees tolerably well with the description in Shaw's Zoology, (vol. xiii, pt. i, p. 114,) 

 except that the feet are there stated to be yellow, whereas in our bird they were of a leaden 

 black colour, slightly tinged with green, and the claws white. 



