'A44 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [April, 



Report of Curator, Zoological Department.* 



The (locations received since the last meeting of the Society are as fol- 

 low : — 



1. G. T. Lushington, Esq., Almorah. A skin of the Kyang (Equus hemio- 

 nus, Pallas), with skull and limb-bones attached, and perfect, excepting that 

 it has been mutilated of about half of one of the ears. Unfortunately, a quan- 

 tity of water had penetrated into the tin-case in which it was packed, or this 

 specimen would have arrived in fine condition. As it is, it does not appear 

 to have received much c ' injury, and will, I think, bear setting up. The 

 animal was killed at the season of shedding its rough winter-coat, and 

 exhibits in parts both this and its summer pelage. 



2. Baboo Debendernath Tagore. The carcass of an adult male Hoolock 

 (Hylobates hoolock). 



3. Mr. DeCruz, of the Botanic Garden. A particularly fine specimen of 

 the common Bengal Civet (Viverra zibethaj.f 



4. Raja Buddenath Roy. A dead specimen of the Cockatoo Parrakeet 

 (Nymphicits nova hollandia) . 



5. J. Laidlay, Esq. A dead River Turtle, or Trionyx, the Gymnopus Du- 

 vaucelei, Dum. and Bibr. ; and numerous specimen of Bats — Cynopteras, 

 Meyaderma, and Nycticejus. 



6. R. W. G. Frith, Esq. A dead Shamah (Kittacincla macrourus), in fine 

 plumage. 



7. Mr. Birch, of the Pilot Service. Various fish, Crustacea, &c, collected 

 at the Sandheads.J 



* For February meeting", 1848. 



t This species, which on the eastern side of the Bay of Bengal extends southward 

 into the Malayan peninsula (where, however, it is much rarer than V. tanggalunga), 

 and is found also in Assam and in the valley of Nepal, does not appear to occur in the 

 peninsula of India, unless partially to the N. E. on the confines of Bengal ; but in the 

 extreme south, as in Travancore, it is represented by an allied race which entirely resem- 

 bles the African V. civetta, except that the dorsal crest is not continued forward to 

 between the ears. There is a specimen of tins race in the Museum of the Zoological 

 Society, referred to V. zibetha in Mr. Waterhouse's Catalogue of the Mammalia in that 

 collection, and said there to be from Sumatra, having been presented L by Sir Stamford 

 Raffles ; but I strongly suspect that this habitat is erroneously assigned, especially as 

 the specimen was formerly labelled as having been presented by the late duke of 

 Northumberland. 



X Among Scomberida lately contributed by Mr. Birch and others, may be enumerated 

 Chlorinemus aculeatus, (Bloch), C. and V. Hist. Poiss. VIII, 282, Caranx nigripes, ibid. 

 IX, 92, Stromateus securifer, ibid. IX, 293, Curtus Blochii, ibid. IX, 312, Equula in- 

 tidiatrix, ibid. X, 72, and a Felamys which appears to be undescribed. I may also 





