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P. 100. When tracing the geographic range of the common Jungle Cat of Bengal 

 (Felis chaus), I strangely did not think of referring to Mr. Elliot's valuable list 

 of the species of Mammalia inhabiting the Southern Mahratta country (Madr. Jl., 

 No. XXIV, p. 108), or I should have been there informed of its occurrence in Southern 

 India. The F. viverrinus has lately been obtained by me in the vicinity of Calcutta. 



P. 102. To the species of oriental Hare adverted to, add the Tibetan Lepus 

 pallipes, Hodgson, p. 288 seq., and the Tartarian L. tolai, Pallas. L. ruficaudatus is 

 stated, in the Zoologie du Voyage de M. Be'langer (p. 157), to have been "discovered 

 in Bengal by M. Duvaucel. It likewise exists in the neighbourhood of Pondicherry," 

 continues M. Isidore St. Hilaire, " and in various other parts of India. Lastly, it has 

 more recently been met with in the Isle of France, by M. M. Quoy and Gaymard." 

 This Society has lately received the other Indian species (L. nigricollis) from the 

 Isle of France, and this alone is mentioned to exist there in M. J. Desjardins' list of 

 the mammalia of that island, in Proc. Zool. Soc. for J831, p. 46.* The European L. 

 timidus is mentioned, in addition to L. ruficaudatus and L. (vel potius Arctomys f) 

 hispidus, in Dr. Walker's catalogue of the mammalia of Assam, published in 

 McClelland's Journal, No. X, p. 367 : but should this introduction of it repose solely 

 on the authority of the notice referred to this species in Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1839, 

 p. 152, then I think we might infer that it may be safely withdrawn from the list of 

 Assamese mammalia, as there can be little doubt of that notice referring to L. rufi- 

 caudatus. In a catalogue which I have received of a collection of British specimens, 

 for the Society's Museum, which are now on their voyage to this country and may 

 shortly be expected, it appears that examples have been sent of the four species of 

 Lepus found in the British islands, which will afford the means of comparing As- 

 samese specimens of reputed L. timidus with the animal of Europe. 



P. 105. Picus sultaneus, Hodgson ; vide p. 970 : in reference to which Mr. Jerdon 

 suggests, with much probability, that Dr. Horsfield's alleged female of P. strictus 

 must have been a young male of that species. 



P. 106. To the list of Indian species referred to Mr. Hodgson's genus Ckaitaris, 

 add the Muscicapa banyumas, Horsfield (vel M. hyacintha, Tem. apud Tickell, 

 J. A. S. II, 574), which is closely allied to Ch. rubeculoides — the Phoenicura 

 rubeculoides, Vigors and Gould. Mr. Hodgson has also forwarded to the Society a 

 Ch. auricularis, a figure of which occurs among Dr. McClelland's drawings of 

 Assamese birds. M. cantatrix, Temminck, is identified by Dr. Horsfield and others 

 with M. banyumas; and the M. rubecula, Swainson, apud Jerdon (Supplement), is 

 now suspected by that naturalist to be merely the female or young male of banyumas, 

 " so that the label in the French Museum, as quoted by Swainson, may not be so er- 

 roneous as he imagines." The Muscicapa aurea, Auct, would also appear to be no 

 other than banyumas. f 



* I fancy there must be some misconception here, on the Part of M. Is. Geoffroy. The Pondi- 

 cherry species (nigricollis) inhabits the Mauritius, having doubtless been introduced there ; but I 

 much doubt whether the other (or ruficaudatus) occurs in Southern India at all. The " Indian Hare" 

 may have been brought by M. M. Quoy and Gaymard from the Isle of France, being the Pondi- 

 cherry species — L. nigricollis, and not L. ruficaudatus. 



f Thus extended, indeed, the genus will bear further separation : Chaitaris comprising Ch. gran- 

 dis,Cfi. sundara, Ch. McGregorii, and Ch. auricularis; whilst the (aurea ? vel J banyumas, the 

 rubeculoides, and the Saxicola nigrorufa, Jerdon, constitute another small group more nearly 

 allied to the Flycatchers. 



