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described; and its co-habitant the Felis ornata is now fairly made 

 known for the first time ! Wo doubt there is yet much to learn respect- 

 ing the smaller Vertebrata of the same region. 



8. Capt. E. T. Dalton, Dibrughur, Asam. The skull of a fine male of 

 the Budorcas taxicolor, Hodgson. 



9. Sir J. Barlow, Bart., C. S. Skull and horns of a fine male wild 

 Buffalo. 



10. Capt. P. Jenkins, Madras Service, Sagur. Series of caudal vertebrae 

 of a cow Gaour (Bos gaurus), required to complete a skeleton in the 

 museum. 



11. C. Brownlow, Esq. The half of a remarkable ' bezoar,' obtained 

 from the stomach of a domestic bull, which had managed to munch down 

 a couple of rough country blankets : no uncommon propensity on the 

 part of domestic cattle. This bezoar, finely illustrative of the rotatory 

 action of the stomach, is 5| in. in diameter. 



12. J. E. Bruce, Esq., Chittagong. Three entire specimens in spirit, 

 and a skin, of Eurinorhynchus pygmjeus. 



Here may be remarked, that, in a collection of bird-skins from Bombay, 

 sent on inspection by Dr. G. Buist, on behalf of the Bombay branch of 

 the Royal Asiatic Society, the only novelty I can find is the Parus xan- 

 thogenys of Dr. Jerdon's catalogue, for which I propose the name 



P. Jerdoni, n. s. It much resembles P. xanthogenys, Vigors, of the 

 N, W. Himalaya ; but is conspicuously larger, having the back less tinged 

 with yellow, the yellow portions of the plumage not so intense in hue, 

 and the yellow sincipital streak is not continued forward over the eye, as 

 in P. xanthogenys (verus) . Length of wing 3 in. ; and of tail 2f in. ; 

 in P. xanthogenys the wing varies from 2| to 2f in., and the tail mea- 

 sures 2-§- in. This is the third species which has now been discriminated 

 apart from P. xanthogenys, Vigors ; the others being P. spilonotus, 

 nobis, from Nipal, Sikim, the Khasyas, &c, — and P. subviridis, Tickell, 

 nobis, from the mountainous interior of the Tenasserim provinces. I 



as compared with any Indian tame Cat, the affinity of an ordinary British Cat to 

 F. sylvestris is manifest ; and due, I suspect, to frequent intermixture at a time 

 when the tame Cat was first introduced into Britain and continued rare, while the 

 wild species was far more abundant than at present ; an indelible impress of the 

 native stock having been then effected, which may have gradually diffused itself 

 throughout the domestic race in Britain and neighbouring countries. This much, 

 at least, appears to be quite clear, that several wild species have contributed to 

 produce the domeslic Cats of different regions. 



