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hairy pelage of the brows. Nevertheless, it does not now appear to me that 

 this animal is distinct from the common Bengal species, in which I find that 

 the anterior horns very commonly remain permanently rudimental, as in an 

 individual just dead, which I have kept for more than a year, and in another 

 which I formerly possessed and which is also now mounted in the museum. 

 These differed in no other respect whatever from a male which I still have living, 

 but in which the anterior horns have attained their full development : and 

 that the age of this and of the animal just dead was about the same, i. e. that 

 they were kids of the same season, is indicated by their both shedding the 

 blunt outer sheath of their horns at the same time. All are from the Rajmahl 

 hills ; and during the year and upwards that I have kept the animal just 

 dead, its rudimental anterior horns did not increase in size. Capt. Hutton 

 even writes me word — "Depend upon it all the 4-homed Antelopes are 

 T. quadricornis — the development of horns is very variable. I have one skull 

 in which the posterior horns are 3 in. long ; the right anterior horn is If in.., 

 long and perfect, — whereas the left horn is not quite 1 in., forming a mere 

 knob. 1 have been told," continues Capt. Hutton, " by sportsmen who had 

 often shot them that ;the front horns are very often mere knobs, and that it 

 is somewhat rare to get a perfect head in this respect." Mr. Elliot once 

 sent me on loan a specimen with fully developed anterior horns from the 

 "Wynaad: but such individuals would seem to be rare in S. India. Of 

 his (so termed) sub- quadricornis, he writes — " They are found throughout 

 the Dekhan : the specimen now sent is from the eastern ghats between Nellore 

 and Cuddapah. I have also received young living specimens from the hills 

 above Chittoor and Vellore on the borders of the Barahmahl, which shows 

 the distribution to be very general." The young might, however, be refer- 

 able to either variety, 



2. Major Ouseley, Chota Nagpore. Skin and skeleton of a young bull 

 Gaour. 



3. Baboo Rajendro Mullick. A dead Kangaroo, of the species Halmatu- 

 rus derbianus j now preserved as a stuffed specimen. 



4. Mr. Ransom, of the Pilot Service. A living Tropic-bird, or " Bosw'n 

 bird" (Phaeton cethereus), since dead and preserved as a skeleton. This bird 

 was very helpless on the ground, — unable to stand up, with its legs stretched 

 outward ; but on a steep surface it could climb, using its beak like a Cormo- 

 rant. 



5. Mr. C. McLeod. Skin of a large and very handsome Tibetan Dog, 

 with Wolf-like head : and a collection of chiefly marine shells, with a few 

 corals, echini, &c. 



6. Mr. P. J. Van Grieskin. A living domestic cock, with one leg reduced 

 to a minute rudiment. 



7. G. T. Lushington, Esq., C. S., Almorah. A skin of Ovis amnion in good 

 order ; and two skins of Gazella picticaudata, (Hodgson,) one perfect, the 

 other having the muzzle eaten away. The O. amnion, if not required by the 

 Society (which it is not), Mr. Lushington requests may be presented in his 

 name to the museum of the Hon'ble Company, in London. 



8. J. M'Pherson, Esq. A few common Crustacea, among which is a 

 Palamon carcinuos, having an arborescent fucus growing from the extremity 

 of the rostrum. 



9. F. W. Russell, Esq. Collection of shells, chiefly marine. 



10. Mrs. Bacon. A few shells from Australia and Torres' Straits. 



11. Capt. Thomas Hutton, Mussooree, some small birds from that neighbour- 

 hood, comprising 4 males and a female of JEgithalus jlammiceps, a male Picum* 

 nus innominatus, and 13 other specimens, among which are two of a Phyl- 

 loscopus, new to the Society's museum, but with which I have long been 

 familiar, E. Blyth. 



