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28. Ditto with 4 figures of Buddhas — without the inscription. 



29. The plinth of a pilaster. 



30. The base of a dodecagon pillar. 



31 to 33. Three highly sculptured plinths of pillars. 

 34. Portion of the shaft of a highly sculptured pillar. 



Report from the Curator, Zoological Department. 



At this season of the year, it is rarely that I have much to report 

 upon, at least as relates to donations received for the Museum ; but the 

 past has been a very busy month with me, and due progress has been 

 effected in various departments of the Museum, to which I invite the 

 attention of members interested in the investigations which fall within 

 the sphere of duty of the Society's Zoological Curator. 



1 . From G. T. Lushington, Esq., of Almorah, have been received 

 another skin of the Oris ammon, and one of Pantholops chiru. The 

 latter will, I think, bear setting up as a stuffed specimen;* but the 

 former is, I fear, too much injured : though its head and horns may be 

 preserved, as the horns present considerable difference from those of 

 the specimen already mounted, and the two certainly tend to exhibit 

 the amount of variation to which the horns of this noble species are 

 subject. Those of the present specimen are remarkable for increase of 

 depth, in inverse proportion to their diminished width at base ; and I 

 think I may now safely conclude my O. sculptorum to be a mere varie- 

 ty of 0. ammon. .f 



2. From E. O'Ryley, Esq. of Amherst, has been received a collection of 

 sundries, comprising mammalia, birds, fishes, Crustacea, and Mollusca ; 

 some of the Crustacea, more especially, being new to the Society's 

 Museum, and especially acceptable. There is a particularly fine series of 

 the Ocypoda ceratopthalma, from youth to maturity ; from which it is 

 seen that the remarkable ocular peduncle only begins to appear when 



* This has since been done. 



f In p. 362 ante, I was necessitated to quote from memory respecting" the Prince of 

 Canino's statement relative to the suborbital sinuses of 0. musimon. But I find that I 

 quoted it erroneously. It appears, on reference to the volume on " Goats and Sheep," in 

 the ' Naturalist's Library,' that his Highness states (bearing- out my own recollection of a 

 living specimen), that " There is a trace of a lachrymal sinus ;" and that the Prince re- 

 ferred this animal " to the genus or sub-genus Capra, on account of the absence of the 

 interdigital hole." This further complicates the subdivision of the group of Wild Sheep. 



