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and several of a remarkable new generic form akin to the Zeus or * John 

 Dory.' These are described, for want of space here, in a paper on new 

 species of fishes. 



6. Babu Eajendra Mallika. The carcass of a male Ostrich, and of 

 some other animals that had died in his menagerie.* 



7. W. T. Blanford, Esq., of the Geological Survey. Skeletons of 

 Geeonticus papillosus and Anastomus oscitans. 



8. Mrs. J. H. Ballin. A bottle of Snakes. 



9. Mr. E. C. T. Tate, of the Ganges Company's Steamer « Mirzapore.' 

 A fine example of Squilla eaphidia. 



10. Mr. J. Floyd, Alipore. A four-legged chick, of very singular 

 formation, which died of paralysis when a month old. 



11. Dr. Mouat. Some skulls of Sus andamanensis, nobis; and the 

 skull of a cow Buffalo of the wide-horned type, the horns of which attain 

 occasionally so enormous a length. {Vide Proc. Zool. Soc. 1855, p. 17.) A 

 detached pair in the British Museum are each 6^ ft. round the curvature. 



12. H. H. The Maharaja of Burdwan. A remarkable bezoar taken 

 from the stomach of a Giraffe. It is shaped like a short lemon, 3 in. in 

 greatest length, encrusted with a soft calcareous substance having a 

 smooth vermiculated surface, beneath which is a layer of the agglutinat- 

 ed hairs of the animal ; and the same alternation occurs apparently in 

 successive concentric layers. Among the stuffed mammalia presented by 

 the Maharaja, as noticed in Vol. XXVII, p. 273 et. seq., we have since 

 detected specimens of Hylobates agilis and Gazella doecas (verusj.f 



13. Capt. Jethro Fairweather. A fine collection of corals from Sin- 

 gapore; and the skull of a Delphinus from the Bay of Bengal. 



14. Major R. C. Tytler, of the late 38th N. I. Skull of a Delphinus 

 (minus the lower jaw), procured westward of the Cape of Good Hope : 

 also the skull of a Camel. 



* It may be remarked that there are two very distinct types of Ostrich- eggs. 

 One is the ordinary egg, with numerous very conspicuous pores on the surface 

 of the shell. The other has no trace of these pores, is generally smaller, and 

 has a smooth and highly polished surface. I have heard it confidently stated, 

 that the latter only are found in southern Africa, while both sorts are brought 

 from the northern portion of that continent. Are there, as the Prince of Ca- 

 nino suspected, two species of Ostrich ? And does the smooth-shelled egg apper- 

 tain to the race of Mesopotamia in the days of Xenophon, that yet lingers in 

 the Syrian desert, and may still occur plentifully in the proximate part of Africa ? 



f I now recognise the Egyptian Gazelle as Or. doecas; the Arabian (fre- 

 quently brought to Calcutta from Aden) as Gr. coea ; and the Indian as G. 

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