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Wing I0Í in. Tail 5 in. 

 Bill to forehead 2^ in. Foot 4 in. From the ' Crozettes.' 



CllENALOPEX JEGYPTIACA, (Gm.) 



Anas elavirostris, A. Smith (A. JRuppeUi, nobis). 



QUERQUERDULA ERYTIIRORHYNCHA, (Gin.) 

 PODICEPS CRISTATUS, L. 



Aptenodytes Pennantii, G. E. Gray. 

 *Chrysocoma catarractes, (Gm.) Feet wanting. 



3. From Capfc. Hodge, commanding tlie guard-sliip ' Sesostris,' 

 at Port Blair. 



Two additional colleetions of sundries from that locality. The list 

 of Andamánese mammalia is now extended to five species ; viz. 



Paradoxurus musanga (r Marsden), v. typus (?), F. Cuvier. 

 Skull and other bones of a very aged individual, having naturally lost 

 all of its true molars and most of its prse-molars, and the sockets of 

 most of those of the lower jaw being completely closed up by depo- 

 sition of bone ; a single root only remains of three of the upper prse- 

 molars respectively, and three prse-molars remaining in the lower jaw 

 are worn away nearly to their bifurcation. The bones of the skull 

 and face had long been completely united. The incisors, also, had 

 been naturally dropped, save the outermost above, which is almost worn 

 to the root ; and the canines are excessively abraded, but what remains 

 of them is remarkable for extraordinary size, considerably exceeding 

 those of the common P. musan ga of Bengal, &c. This disposes me 

 to hesitate in identifying the species positively, though in other 

 respects the size and form of the skull accord satisfactorily with P. 

 musanga. Dr. Gray, in bis British Museum catalogue, and the 

 late Dr. Horsfield, in bis catalogue of the specimens of mam- 

 malia in the India-house museum, regard the Malayan P. mttsanga 

 and the Indian P. ti/pus, F. Cuv., as distinct species ; but in Lower 

 Bengal this animal varíes much, some individuáis being without 

 markings and others being marked very strongly and undistinguishably 

 from the Malayan specimens in our cüllection. It inhabits the whole 

 eastern coast of the Bay of Bengal and Malacca Straits ; and as ifc 

 is quite impostíible to distinguish many Bengal specimens from ordi- 





