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4. Baboo Raj end ro Mullick. Two dead Pheasants. 



5. Jas. J. Davidson, Esq. A misformed egg of the common fowl, kidney° 

 shaped : though small, it was probably double-yolked. 



6. Baboo Janmejaya Mittra. A coal black Jackal, young, (but about full 

 grown,) female, dead. Now stuffed in the museum. 



7. W. Thompson, Esq. Bally gunge Frontlet and horns of the European 

 Roe-buck; and skin of a Tern (Anous tenuirostris), procured off Madeira ! 



8. Willis Earle, Esq. A few fishes and sea snakes, procured at the 

 Sandheads. 



9. Major Jenkins, Gowhatti. Some skins of Ducks. 



10. Mr. A. Bruce, Chittagong. Skin of an Oyster-catcher (Hamatopus 

 ostralegus). 



11. J. M'Clelland, Esq., Bengal Medical service. Carcass of a Wanderoo 

 Monkey (Inuns silenus). 



12. Capt. Berdmore, Madras Artillery, (through Capt. Phayre,) Maulmein. 

 A living Paradoxurus, apparently undescribed ; since dead and preserved in 

 the museum. Dr. Heifer procured the same species in the Tenasserim pro- 

 vinces, and Capt. Phayre in Arracan, where it is rare. 



13. Murray Gladstone, Esq. A few Darjeeling birds, much injured ; but 

 among them is a new Heteromorpha, Hodgson, connecting that division with 

 Paradoxornus, Gould. 



14. Rev. J. Mason, Maulmein. A few flat skins of bird. E. Blyth. 



For May Meeting, 1848. 



1 . J. M'Clelland, Esq., Bengal Medical Service. Skin of Hyhbates lar. 



2. Baboo Rajendro Mullick. A small species of Kangaroo, dead : pre- 

 pared as a skeleton, the fur having been dipt short ; skin of head preserved. 



3. Capt. Roger Rollo, 30th Madras N. I. A few bird-skins, from the 

 Nilgherries ; and with them an imperfect skin of Sciurus macrourus, perfectly 

 similar to the animal of Ceylon. 



4. Capt. E F. Smith, Sadyia. Skin of anew species and genus of Caprine 

 Ruminant, with horns nearly as in the Gnoos (Catoblepas) : adult: female, now 

 mounted in the museum. 



5. Mr. McFarlane. 3 deformed living Pigeons. 



6. Mr. Wagentrieben. A young living example of Monitor salvator? 

 found on board ship upon the voyage from Bombay to Calcutta. 



7. Mrs. Duncan Stewart. Three specimens of snakes, from the neigh- 

 bourhood. 



8. Capt. Phayre, Maulmein. A box of sundries, containing two skins-, 

 with separated skulls, of Nemorhcedus sumatrensis, from Tenasserim ; the hairs 

 of the nuchal mane but partially white : portion of a skin of Presbytis Phayrei 9 

 nobis, XVI, 773 : and imperfect skin of Felis bengalensis, resembling the 

 ordinary Nepal, Assam, Sylhet, and Arracan variety, and not approximating 

 to the markings of the Malayan variety (?), v. F. javanensis : vide p. 250, 

 ante. 



9. Capt. Berdmore, Madras Artillery, (through Capt. Phayre.) A living 

 specimen of the large Tenasserim land Tortoise ; identical in species with an 

 individual formerly sent from Arracan by Capt. Phayre. E. Blyth. 



For June Meeting, 1848. 



1. Walter Elliot, Esq. Madras C. S. Two skins, male and female, of the 

 four-horned Antelope, sent as Tetraceros subquadricornis, Elliot, the male 

 having the anterior horns reduced to slight rudiments not visible above th# 



