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Of birds, fifteen additional species have been added to the sixteen 

 mentioned in p. 272 et seq. and p. 412 ; but as yet we have hardly 

 made a beginning with the ornithology of the Andamáns. 



Of new species, the most notable is a superb large black Wood- 

 peeker of the división Mttlleeipicus of the late Prince of Canino 

 (HemilopTius, Swainson). 



M. Hodgei, nobis, n. s. Wholly black in both sexes, except 

 the crown, occiput, and moustaches of the male, which are vivid 

 crimson as usual, and the occiput only of the feraale. It is smaller 

 thanM. Hodqsonii, (Jerdon), of Malabar, or M. jayensis, (Horsfield) } 

 of the Malayan peninsula and more western islands ; the closed wing 

 measuring but 7i in., the middle tail-feathers 6 in., and the beak to 

 forehead lf in. 



Anthits eufosupeeciliaeis, nobis, n. s. ; A. pratensis apud nosj 

 J. A. S. XXIV, 473, from Pegu. Like A. peatensis, but with the 



occipital plañe, which is 2 to 2¿ in. where narrowest, and by the shortnes3 of the 

 tail, which numbers only 13 or 14 vertebrse. This may be distinguished as S. 



BENGALENSIS, nobis. 



Another is the ordinary S. INDICUS, Gray {S. cristatus, Wagler), as noticed by 

 Dr. Gray from the Madras Presidency ; it being found over the whole of India, 

 the highlands of Ceylon, and also in Arakan, but I cannot pronounce on its diffu- 

 sion further. It is likewise an inhabitant of Lower Bengal, as we have a stuffed 

 specimen of a particularly fine boar of this race that was speared near Calcutta. 

 The dornestic Pigs of India appear to be mainly (if not wholly) derived from it. 

 The entire skeleton is conspicuously less robust than in the preceding, the tusks 

 less developed, the lower rarely projecting 2| in. from the socket ; the occipital 

 plañe where narrowest rarely exceeds lf in., and the tail is conspicuously much 

 longer, consisting of about 20 vertebrse. We have the skull of a sow of this 

 race, which has the fully developed tusks of the boar, — of course a rare anomaly. 



The third is the species with very elongated skull and narro w occipital plañe, 

 where narrowest 1 in. only, inhabiting the lowlands of Ceylon, which I denomin- 

 ated S. zeylanensis in J. A. S. XX, 173, and which may also be S. aefinis, 

 Gray, from the Nilgiris, mentioned in the List ofthe Osteological Specimensin the 

 Collection of the British Museum, where S. indicus is cited from the Nepal hills 

 and tarai, and also Malabar. 



I have no skull of an European wild Boar for comparison, but judging from 

 Blainville's figures, our S. indicus approximates it more nearly than ¡3. benga- 

 lensis or S. zeylanensis. 



In the new B-ussian territory of the Amür, it appears, — " Of Cattle or Horses 

 few were seen, but many Stvine of a peculiar kincl, and Fowls." Journ. Roy. 

 Oeogr. Soc. XXVIII (1858), p. 381. Wild Hogs are found at all elevations in 

 the Hirnalaya, and generally over Asia. Tliose of Indo-China, China, and the 

 Malayan peninsula require to be carefully examiued. As many as three species 

 are reported to inhabit the plain of Mesopotamia. Wood, in his Journey to the 

 Source of the Oxus, remarks that — " Descending the eastern side of Junas Da- 

 rah, our march wa3 rendered less fatiguing by following Hog-tracks in the snow. 

 So nurnerous are these animáis, that they had trodden dovvn the snow as if a 

 large flock of Sheep had been driven over it." 



