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Artamus sordidus, (Lath.) 

 Anthoch2era inauris, Gould. Two specimens. 

 Ptilotis flavigula, (Gmelin.) Ditto. 

 Meliornis nov^e Hollands, (Latham.) 

 Manorhina garrula, (Latham). 



*SC0L0PAX AUSTRALIS, Gould. 



Tribonyx Mortieri, Dubus. 



Rejotilia. 



Cyclodus gigas, Boddaert. 



From the Hon'ble W. Elliot, C. S., Madras. The skin of a Marten, 

 forwarded on loan through Mr. Grote, habitat not stated. It represents 

 a fourth race of the Martes flavigula type ; equivalent to those of the 

 Squirrels which are brought together by Prof. Temminck under the 

 general name of Sctureus giganteus, but which most systematists 

 recognise under different names. These races are as follow : 



1. Martes flavigula of the Himalaya and mountains of Arakan. 

 Blackish-brown face, cheeks, and nape, abruptly demarcated ; chin and 

 throat white : breast and fore-part of the body pale yellowish-brown, 

 mostly darker along the middle of the back, and passing to blackish- 

 brown on the croup, fore-limbs, hind-quarters, and tail. 



2. M. Gwatkinsii, A. Smith, of the Nilgiris. Entire upper-parts 

 blackish-brown, with the white throat and yellowish breast of the last. 

 In other respects similar. 



3. M. flavigula apud Cantor, from the Malayan peninsula. Similar 

 to No. 1, but the fur much shorter, and tail consequently less bushy ; 

 the blackish cap merely indicated by pale-brown, but with a perephyral 

 dark line passing from behind each ear. Of this race I have seen numer- 

 ous specimens, all true to the particular colouring. 



4. M. Elliot's animal. Upper-parts nearly uniform brown, paler on 

 the sides, chin, throat, and breast, as on the others ; the lower-parts 

 dark, with some irregular blackish spots between the fore-limbs : pere- 

 phyral blackish mark behind the ear, continued less distinctly forward j 

 the brown of the crown and nape less dark than in No. 1, and continued 

 uniformly on the shoulders and croup, scarcely paling along the middle 

 of the back : tail much browner than in the others, and the limbs scarcely 

 so dark. Possibly a variety of No. 2. 



