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especially the brow-antler, with greater tendency to subdivide at the 

 crown. When series of horns of both races are seen together, the dif- 

 ference is very manifest.* 



Of birds are sent skins of Eurystomus orientalis, Harpactes ery- 

 throcephalus, and Lyncornis cerviniceps. 



Of reptiles, many interesting specimens, comprising Draco lineatus, 

 Acanthosaura armata, Calotes emma (very fine), C. VERSICOLOR, 

 Leiolepis Eeevesii, Aspris Bermorei, nobis (fine), Lissonota macu- 

 lata, Xenopeltis concolor, Pythoistia (n. g.) semizonata {Homolopsis 

 sernizonata, nobis, J. A. S. XXIV, 187), Parias (D. and B., nee Gray) macu- 

 larius, n. s., Coronella notata, n. s., Xenodon purpdrascens (sever- 

 al varieties), Leptophis ornata, Dipsas ferruginea, D. (v. Amblyce- 



PHALUS) BOA, HoMOLOPSIS SlEBOLDII (!), H. LEUCOBALIA, NaJA TRIPU- 



diens (dark var.), Hamadryas vittatus, and others unnecessary to men- 

 tion. Also some Batrachia, including an Icthyophis, which I am neces- 

 sitated to leave undetermined for the present. 



Of fishes, a very large collection, including numerous new fresh-water 

 species, some of Himalayan types, others akin to those of the plains of 

 India and Lower Bengal. Descriptions of all of them are awaiting pub- 

 lication, but they are far too numerous for introduction in this place. The 

 group of Cobitidce (or Loches), in particular, exhibits an extraordinary 



* Since the decease of Major Berdmore, we have received two more packets 

 from him, one of them containing two flat skins of probably does of the Panolia, 

 They are of a pale chesnut-brown colour, paler on the sides, white below ; spotless 

 with a dark mesial list which in one of the two specimens is scarcely discernible : 

 face and limbs more or less infuscated : the tail, if (as it appears) perfect, very 

 short. Evidently in summer coat. Not unlike C. Duvaucelii in corresponding 

 garb ; but the latter is mostly more or less spotted or menilled, with especially a 

 row of pale spots along each side of the dorsal list ; and there is no infuscation of 

 the face and limbs. Among the Hardwicke collection of drawings in the British 

 Museum is a coloured figure designated as the " Spotted Bdra Singlia of the 

 Sundarbans." This represents an unusually spotted buck, though I have seen a 

 doe equally spotted ; and the species does inhabit parts of the Sundarbans. As 

 with the Hog Deer, some individuals of the Bdra Sing'ha are much more spotted 

 than others in the summer costume, and the does are generally more so than the 

 bucks. The most spotted buck of the Hog Deer which I have seen was sent alive 

 from Ceylon by Dr. Kelaart. I think, however, it will be found that the Cingha- 

 lese Hog Deer (with which the Malabar species is probably identical) has longer 

 and more Axis-like horns than true C. PORCINUS, the inner prong of the terminal 

 fork being given off at an acuter angle ; the figure of the animal being also some- 

 what less For cine. 



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