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Two other large animals that have been mounted as stuffed specimens during the 

 past month, are a young Bull Gayal (Bos frontalis) , which I have the pleasure of 

 presenting to the Society, and the male Saumer Deer (Cervus hippelaphus), which 

 had been living for some years in the Society's compound. 



2. From R. W. G. Frith, Esq., and 



3. From Mr. E. Lindstedt, large and valuable collections of mammalia and 

 bird skins from the Malayan peninsula. These collections have left scarcely a 

 species of the two classes mentioned, known to inhabit that peninsula, of which the 

 Society still requires specimens ; and they have contributed a good deal to our 

 knowledge of the rich zoology of the country in question. As some of the deside- 

 rata which these collections have supplied us with, may be enumerated — among 

 mammalia, a very fine series of the Hylobates lar, also Presbytis femoralis, exam- 

 ples of the Marten referred to Mustela flavigula in Dr. Cantor's list (xv. 194), and 

 some murine skins, — and of birds, Buceros comatus, male and female, Bucco qua- 

 dricolor, Gecinus rubiginosus, Tiga Rafflesii, series of Centropus eurycercus, Chap* 

 tia malayensis, Brachypodius criniger, A. Hay, (xiv. 557), Malacopteron majus, 

 n. s., Orthotomus edela, and Rhizothera longirostris, m. and f. Some fishes also 

 are comprised in Mr. Frith's collection, pertaining to the genera Serranus, 

 Mesoprion, and Murcenesox , and a Monitor (vel Varanus) in that of Mr. Lindstedt, 

 as also a small Crocodilus biporcatus. 



4. The Rev. J. Barbe, to whom we have been repeatedly indebted for valuable 

 donations, has now presented us with a considerable number of specimens, chiefly 

 of birds, collected in the Tenasserim provinces, Penang, and Malacca. From the 

 first named locality, Mr. Barbe has brought a third undescribed species of Squirrel 

 (all from the provinces,) for which we are indebted to his exertions ; and from Penang 

 the Crypsirina varians (or Phrenotrix temia, Horsfield), the male of Philentoma 

 plumosums and other species of much interest. 



5. Mr. O'Ryley, of Amherst, has favoured the Society with an extremely in- 

 teresting collection of mammalia, birds, reptiles, &c. from the Tenasserim provin- 

 ces : among which may be noticed the skin of the head of an old female Rhino- 

 ceros sumatranus, with the horns perfect, and which I have had properly stuffed ; 

 also fine specimens of an undescribed Squirrel ; and among birds, two examples of 

 the Eurinorhynchus griseus (vide As. Res. vol. xix, pt. i, p. 69. and pi. ix), which 

 has hitherto been considered one of the rarest of the feathered class, but which 

 appears to be of very common occurrence on the Tenasserim coast, as I am assured 

 by Mr. Barbe and others. Mr. O'Ryley has sent also a Teesa Hawk, which seems 

 to be the Poliornis fasciatus of Lord Arthur Hay, Madras Journ. No. XXXI, 146 

 (but, if so, very doubtfully distinct from P. teesa), a Bulboul, which is the repre- 

 sentative of Pycnonotus hcemorrhous of Arracan ; some rare snakes, &c. &c. 



6. Mr. F. Skipwith, C. S., has likewise sent us, from Chittagong, an example 

 of the Eurinorhynchus, a species which I hope soon to obtain in abundance from 

 Mr. O'Ryley, and so ascertain its seasonal variations of colouring, as well as to 

 receive replies to my various inquiries respecting its habits and mode of life. 



