788 Asiatic Society. [No. 128. 



It was ordered, that the English Coins offered, be purchased, and that 

 the thanks of the Society be communicated to Lieut. Cunningham, for 

 his presentation of the Roman Coins. 



Read letter from H. M. Elliot, Esq. Secretary Sudder Board of Revenue 

 at Allahabad, dated the 29th June last, forwarding selections from cor- 

 respondence respecting the proposed formation of a Canal for irrigation 

 to be supplied from the River Jumna, near the village of Kuttha Putthur 

 in the Deyrah Doon. 



Referred to the Secretary for publication in his Journal. 



Read letter of 30th June last, from R. H. Mytton, Esq. Magistrate 24- 

 Pergunnahs, requesting return of some Coins found by a convict, or their 

 value Co.'s. Rs. 36. 



Ordered, that the Coins be purchased for the Society, and their value 

 forwarded to Mr. Mytton. 



Read the following Report from the Curator :— 



g IR> — i n the class of Mammalia, I have nothing of particular interest on which to 

 report. We continue to receive such animals as are entrapped or shot at the Botanic 

 Garden, which are always acceptable for exchange or transmission elsewhere; and 

 I have especially to thank Mr. Jos. De Cruz of that establishment, for his kind at- 

 tention to my wishes in this respect. 



In that of Birds, our acquisitions, since the last meeting, have been very extensive. 



1. From B. H. Hodgson, Esq., British Resident at the Court of Nepal, I have the 

 gratification to announce the arrival, as a donation to the Society, of 270 species 

 of birds, whereof four specimens respectively are sent of the greater number (though 

 it is to be regretted that many are in very imperfect condition) ; and there are seven- 

 ty species which are new to the Museum, while above 100 are more or less common 

 in this neighbourhood. 



2. Mr. Frith has forwarded to the Society specimens of 



Budytes citreola, or, I rather suspect, an allied species which is also met with 

 in this neighbourhood. 



Esacus recurvirostris, Lesson (1831) : Pseudops (olim Carvanica) grisea, Hodg- 

 son, J. A. S. V, 776; (Edicnemus recurvirostris, Swainson. 



Rhynchops flavirost ris. 



3. Mr. Mackay has kindly permitted me to select from a very interesting collec- 

 tion of Malayan birds received from Singapore, examples of such species as are 

 wanting to the Museum, for which I have given duplicate specimens in exchange; 

 and Dr. Spry has also favored me with a like permission in the instance of another 

 collection of Malayan birds, for which I have also looked out a somewhat extensive 

 series of duplicates for transmission to the Cornish institution at Truro. Our ac- 

 quisitions in this manner consist of the following species, of which those new to the 

 Museum are marked with an asterisk. 



Palceornis Malaccensis, Vigors : Psittacus Malaccensis, Gmelin, but not of La- 

 tham, which refers to the next species. A more beautiful specimen than I remember 



