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superintended the execution of sundry drawings that were taken of them 

 with extreme care and the minutest attention to detail, whereby I hap- 

 pen to be particularly familiar with the character of the species, — that 

 this great American Stag will be found to average a larger size than 

 the Asian C. Wallichii, if not to be constantly larger. They are, 

 however, most closely affined, even more so than Ovis ammon and O. 



MONTANA. 



2. From Mr. A. Hancock, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, I have re- 

 ceived a collection of sundries, of which I make over to the museum 

 skins of Meles taxus, Noctulinia noctula (2.), Tinnunculus 



jESALON (2.), EUDROMIA MORINELLUS (yOUIlg), ToTANUS GLOTTIS 



(2., British specimens perfectly identical with the Indian glottoides of 

 Vigors), Larus marinus (adult), Oidemia fusca (male), and Podi- 

 ceps cornutus (crested). Also a series of antlers (not fine) of Cervus 

 elaphus, and two fine frontlets of C. capreolus ; with examples in 

 spirit of British Vipers, Frogs, and a few Insects. I further present the 

 Society with the following specimens from Darjiling. — Skins respectively 

 of Lasiurus Pearsonii, Horsfield (J. A. S. XX, 524),* Talpa mi- 

 croura, Hystrix Hodgsonii, Aquila imperialis (in uniformly 

 brown plumage), Tchitrea paradisi (fine parti-coloured male, killed 

 in L. Bengal), Sitta castaneoventris, and the young of Athene 

 brama, Psilorhinus flavirostris, Coracias indica, and Parus 

 cinereus. Also the carcass of an adult male Arctonyx collaris, 

 both skin and skeleton of which have been prepared, — and a female 

 Melanocorypha torquata, nobis, J. A. S. XIII, 962, XVI, 476. 



3. From the Rev. F. Fitzgerald, a collection of mammalia, birds, 

 reptiles, &c, from N. Carolina. 



Of Mammalia are sent Felis rufa, Guld. ; a skull ; Mustela 

 fusca, Bachman, 2 skins ; Procyon lotor, (L.), skull ; Scalops 

 aquaticus, (L.), in spirit ; Sciuroptera volucella, (L.), skeleton ; 

 Sciurus leucotis, Gappar (v. cinereus, Harlan, et carolinensis, 

 Godman), skin ; and Mus musculus, L., two skins. 



Of Birds, skins of Tinnunculus sparverius, foem. ; Buteo bore- 



alis, juv. ; Bubo virginianus, mas ; Ceryle alcyon, mas ; 



Dryocopus pileatus, foem., and skull of male ; Picus pubescens, 



mas; Coccyzus erythropthalmos ; Cyanurus cyaneus ; Quis- 



* Noctulinia lasiura, Hodgson, /. A. S. XVI, 896. 



