880 Asiatic Society. [No. 129. 



nealogical tables of the Nagbongohur, composed in tbe Hindee language, 

 but written in Bengalee character. 



Read the following report from the Curator, Mr. Blyth : — 



Sir, — Although the Ornithological department of our Museum may now he con- 

 sidered rich in examples of the species inhabiting Bengal and the Himalaya, it has 

 hitherto been extremely deficient in specimens of those proper to Southern India; 

 wherefore it is with much satisfaction that I now report on a fine collection of specimens 

 from peninsular India, which has recently been presented to us by Mr. Jerdon, and 

 which may be regarded as the first instalment of desiderata, from that quarter, 

 which Mr. Jerdon is kindly endeavouring to procure for us,* whereof the value, too, 

 is enhanced as verifying the actual species described or indicated by that naturalist 

 in his "Catalogue of the Birds of the Peninsula of India," published in successive 

 numbers of the 'Madras Journal of Literature and Science,' from XXIV to XXIX 

 inclusive. 



Of Mammalia, are sent 



*Herpestesf ? A Mungoose from the Neilghierries, allied to (but cer- 

 tainly distinct from) Mr. Hodgson's H. auropunctata, J. A. S. V, 235, identified 

 by Mr. Ogilby as H. Edwardsii : this will shortly be described by Walter Elliot, 

 Esq., the author of the excellent " Catalogue of Mammalia in the Southern Mahratta 

 Country," published in the ' Madras Journal,' Nos. XXIV and XXV. It is also 

 distinct from the allied Malayan H. Javanica, of which Mr. Elliot possesses a speci- 

 men, and as I can aver from recollection of the living Javanica. 



*Sciurus Delesserti ; lately figured and described, as Mr. Jerdon informs me, in 

 the ' Magasin de Zoologie.' This animal is allied to the Sc. insignis, Horsfield, 

 figured in the ' Zoological Researches in Java' of that naturalist, and also to another 

 small species, from Bootan, in the Society's collection, which I presume to be un- 

 described, and shall therefore venture to designate Sc Penibertonii.X 



* Kemas kylocrius, Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 81 ; a head with the skin on. I have 

 been assured by Mr. Elliot that this, and no other, is the so-called Ibex of the 

 Neilghierries, noticed by me in a letter published in the ' Proceedings of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society' for 1841, p. 63 : and as, according to that naturalist, its habits are quite 

 those of a wild Goat, keeping to the steepest and most inaccessible situations, the 

 term hylocrius imposed by Mr. Ogilby, under the impression that this animal was 

 the Jungle Sheep of Anglo-Indian sportsmen, becomes objectionable as applied to 

 it. I have now been long satisfied that the so-termed Jungle Sheep of sportsmen 

 refers to the Muntjac, Kakur, or Barking Deer, and a very intelligible description 

 of the latter, as the Jungle Sheep, is given in a notice of certain of the Mammalia 

 of the Tenasserim provinces, in the 'Bengal Sporting Magazine' for 1841, p. 445, 

 which thus corroborates the information which I have received from other quarters. 

 It is remarkable, however, that a rude figure of what certainly appears to be the 

 K. hylocrius is contained among the drawings of Gen. Hardwicke bequeathed to the 



* A second large collection of bird-skins has since been received from the same gentleman, 

 t The species with an asterisk prefixed are new to the Society's Museum. 

 J Vide p. 887. 



