970 Asiatic Society. [No. 130. 



*Sc. erythrog aster (?), Nobis, N. S. ? Size of the British Squirrel, or a little 

 larger, and having a much longer tail. Entire upper-surface glistening deep reddish- 

 black, minutely grizzled with light fulvous or yellowish-brown, each hair having 

 thus two small annulations : the whole under-parts, from the throat, and inside of the 

 limbs, a rather dark, but not intense, reddish-maronne : feet black with little trace 

 of annulation ; the fulvous predominating most about the head : tail similar to the 

 back for the basal third, then gradually less grizzled, and the terminal half black, 

 almost without grizzling ; moderately bushy : whiskers black : ears not pencillated. 

 Length nine or ten inches ; the tail without its hair as much more, and with it up- 

 wards of two inches additional ; tarsus, to end of claw of longest toe, two inches and 

 a quarter, 



* Buceros Nipalensis, Hodgson, As. Res. XVIII, 178: a magnificent pair, male 

 and female, of this splendid species, — the male having the head, neck, and breast, 

 uniform rust-colour, paling on the crown, and the belly and thighs deep reddish bay. 



Picus strictus (?), Horsfield, Lin. Trans. XIII, 176; P. Sultaneus, Hodgson; P. 

 Strenuus (?) Gould. I have doubtfully followed Mr. Jerdon in referring this species 

 to P. strictus, Horsfield, which is very briefly described (toe. cit.J, and although the 

 latter part of the statement " Pileus maris coccineus, foeminae aurantius," does not 

 apply, inasmuch as the female of this Indian bird (which I have obtained in the 

 vicinity of Calcutta) has the occiput black with round white spots. I am tolerably 

 confident of its being the strenuus of Gould, included by Dr. Horsfield in his Cata- 

 logue of Assamese birds procured by Dr. McClelland ; and there is a figure of it 

 among the latter naturalist's drawings of his specimens. 



Polyplectron chinquis. 



From Dr. Spry, 



Four specimens of a Draco, from Tenasserim. 



From Mr. Peter Virre, 



Hemidactylus : a species new to the collection, taken in Calcutta; the individual 

 having a double tail. 



Numerous specimens of various kinds have also been collected and set up, but not 

 any requiring particular notice. 



I am, Sir, 



Yours obediently, 



Edward Blyth. 



P. S.— The Mungoose from the Neilghierries, noticed in my last Report (p. 880), 

 appears to be the Herpestes fusca, Waterhouse, P. Z. S. 1838, p. 55 : it is less allied 

 to Mr. Hodgson's H. auropunctata (which I have just received from that naturalist), 

 than I had anticipated.— E. B. 



The President forwarded for the Museum of the Society, two specimens of Omi- 

 ttwrynchus Paradoxus, received by Mr. C. R. Puinsep, from Van Diemen's Land. 



