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Hodgson. Mr. Gray identifies this minute Shrew with S. pusillus, S. G. Gmelin, 

 Reise III, 499, t. 75, f. 1, and suggests it to be the S. pygmams, Pallas, i$. exilis, 

 Gm. &yst, Nat., and £\ ccecutiens v. minutus, Laxm. It certainly has a wide 

 range in India, for it has been obtained in the Nilgherries, and in a cellar at Madras, 

 Major Wroughton has presented us with a specimen from Almorah, and we now 

 have it from the Tenasserim coast.* 



8. Willis Earle, Esq. A few quadrupeds and birds from Tenasserim, which 

 had been put into spirit that has since evaporated, leaving the specimens quite dry. 

 Among them is a Cuculus, intermediate in size to C. micropterus and C. poliocepha- 

 lus, and according best with Mr. Hodgson's C. saturatus, which differs from C. 

 micropterus, Gould, chiefly in its smaller bill, like that of C. canorus ; if it be not, 

 indeed, the veritable C micropterus of Gould. 



Also an interesting collection of fishes and some sea snakes, Crustacea, &c, pro- 

 cured at the Sandheads ; which collection supplies a few species not previously in 

 the museum. Likewise two large specimens of the common Cobra. 



9. From the Barrackpore menagerie. The carcass of a Leopard. 



10. From Baboo Rajendro Mullick. A dead Swan (Cygnus olor, L.) 



11. Dr. Theodore Cantor. A few horns of Himalayan ruminants. 



12. J. Pybus, Esq. A frontlet and horns of the Sambur (Cervus hippela- 

 phus), with the beam simple or not forked, — thus corresponding to C. niger, 

 Blainville, v. Rusa nipalensis, Hodgson. 



13. Dr. E. Roer. A small Cobra. 



14. An officer of the ' Bussora Merchant.' The head and vertebral column of a 

 Shark, procured at the Sandheads. 



E. Blyth. 



The Society's large collection of European specimens of Vertebrata 

 was exhibited at the meeting ; and Mr. Blyth' s supplementary Report 

 on the subject and his similar Report on the collection of Australian 

 Vertebrata exhibited at the last meeting, will be published separately 

 from the Journal of the Society. 



The thanks of the Society having been unanimously voted for all 

 contributions and communications, the meeting adjourned to the 12th 

 of January, 1848, when the Annual Report will be submitted and 

 Office-Rearers elected for the ensuing year. 



* Here may be remarked that I have this evidence of the existence of a small brown 

 Sorex in Lower Bengal, about the size of S. araneus, that I once found the remains of one 

 in the stomach of an Elanus, shot about 60 miles above Calcutta. 



