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7. From Walter Elliot, Esq., Madras C. S., now at Masulipatam. 

 Three specimens of Tupaia Ellioti, Waterhouse ; the Tupaie of the 

 Coromandel coast. According to Mr. Waterhouse, this animal "is 

 about equal in size to T. tana ;" but the examples here noticed do 

 not exceed T. ferruginea in size, and are obviously distinct as a 

 species from either of those of the Malay countries. 



8. From Babu Rajendra Mallika. The carcass of a small Indian 

 Bear (skull only preserved). Also that of a kid of Tetraceros 



QUADRICORNIS, and do. MUNTJACUS VAGINALIS. 



9. From the Barrackpore menagerie. Carcasses of Presbytis 

 maurus, and of a very fine male Leopard, — both skin and skeleton 

 preserved of the latter. 



10. Dr. A. Bedford. Skin of Eurynorhynchus pygm^eus, 

 procured at the Sandheads. 



11. Mrs. E. Woodley. A white Sparrow. 



12. Mr. R. Smith. A species of Mantis. 



13. Capt. McFarlane, of the barque 'Arrow.' Two specimens of 

 an Octopus, " blown or washed on board during a typhoon in the 

 China Sea." E. Blyth. 



Meport of Curator, Zoological Department. 

 Sir, — My Report for the present meeting records the donations to the 

 Zoological Department of the Society's Museum for the last three months, 

 which are as follow : 



1. From C. T. Lushington, Esq. The carcass of a young Globicepha- 

 ius (or ' Ca'ing Whale'), of the species noticed in J. A. S. XIX, 426, killed 

 in the Hugly near Serampore. It has been prepared as a stuffed speci- 

 men ; and of the adult we possess skeletons of both sexes, that of the 

 female having been mounted or put together. Closely affined to the^ 

 European Gl. deductor, this species differs externally in being wholly of 

 a black colour. Its intermaxillaries are shorter; the teeth fewer and 

 larger, numbering 6 or 7 above and 7 or 8 below on each side ; the upper 

 view of the maxillaries differs considerably in contour, being broader and 

 less elongated in the Indian species ; and there are other discrepancies 

 which are less marked. Gl. indicus, nobis, n. s. 



2. From Capt. T. P. Sparkes, Ramri. The left radius, two lumbar 

 and one sacral vertebrae, of an enormous Whale (Bal^nopteea ?) ; and 

 two lumbar vertebra? and the second (?) right rib of a smaller Whale. 

 These Capt. Sparkes supposed to have belonged to one individual, respect- 

 ing which he contributes the following information. " The Whale was 



