928 Mr. Blyth's Report for December Meeting, 1842. [No. 143. 



Mammalia. 



Ursus labiatus : a skeleton. 



* Talpa cryptura, Nobis : a skin, and a specimen in spirits. 



*Sorex aterrimus, Nobis: an adult male, and a young one, both in 

 spirits. (This and the preceding species will be described in a mo- 

 nograph of Indian Talpidce). 



Sciurus bicolor, Sparrman. 



Sciuropterus Turnbullii (?J, Gray, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 67; Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. n. s., I, 584. From recollection of the British Museum 

 specimen on which this name was founded, I strongly incline to the 

 opinion that I have assigned this correctly, but have elsewhere given 

 a description of some Darjeeling specimens, which are inferior in 

 dimensions to those ascribed to Sc. Turnbullii by Mr. Gray.f 



Aves. 



Falco tinnunculus. 



Accipiter nisosimilis, Tickell, J. A. S. II, 57 1 . 



Athene Brodiei ; Noctua Brodiei, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 152; 

 N. tubiger, Hodgson, As. Bes. XIX, 175. 



Upupa epops. 



JBucco grandis ; three specimens. 



— Frankliniiy Nobis, J. A. S. XI, 167. 



Picus ( Gecinus ) Nipalensis, Hard wicke and Gray; doubtfully cited 

 P. mentalis, apud Jerdon. 



P. ( Dendrocopus ) Himalayanus, Jardine and Selby : two males. 



Cuculus canorus : young of both sexes. 



. micropteruSy Gould : female. 



f From the same locality, the Society has lately been presented, by Mrs. Oakes, with 

 a fine specimen of Sciuropterus caniceps, Gray, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1842, 

 p. 262; one of Sciurus iokriah, Hodgson, J. A. S. V, 232; and one of Sc. McClel- 

 landii, Horsfield, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 151, to which species must be referred Sc. Pem- 

 bertonii, Nobis, J. A. S. XI, 887. This little Himalayan Squirrel is represented on 

 the Neilgherries by Sc. Delesserti, Is. Geoff., and in the Malay countries by Sc. 

 insignis, Horsfield, and I believe others. By E. B. Ryan Esq., the Society has been 

 presented with a Darjeeling specimen (at least the skir# was purchased there) of 

 Felis macrocelis, which species has since been sent from Nepal by Mr. Hodgson. Vide 

 J. A. S. XI, 275. These two specimens vary much in ground-tint, inclining res- 

 pectively to grey and to fulvous; but their markings are very similar. 





