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thrown up dead and in a horrid state of decomposition on Juggoo or 

 Amherst Island during last rains. I was unable to see it myself, but was 

 told that the carcass measured 84 ft. in length. The vertebra? and rib were 

 all that I could recover on visiting the island just before I came up to Cal- 

 cutta, with the exception of the two jaw-bones, each about 14 ft. long, 

 which the steamer was unable to bring up last trip, but which I will send 

 you on her return this time from Arakan. This is the only instance I 

 have heard of, of a Whale being stranded on the Coast of Arakan." 

 Nevertheless, the bones sent are certainly those of two individuals and 

 probably species, differing materially in size ;* and we have a note of a 

 Whale of the largest size having been stranded on the Chittagong Coast, 

 as recorded in the ' Friend of India' newspaper for September 15th, 1842, 

 and copied into most of the contemporary Indian Journals ; but no de- 

 scription was taken of it that would determine the genus. 



3. From Mr. E. Lindstedt. A specimen, evidently an adult male, of 

 Accipitee nisoides, nobis, J. A. S. XVI, 727, and shewing that the 

 example previously described was the skin of a younger male and not of a 

 female ; also the skin of a presumed adult male Bateachostomus aurittjs, 

 (Vigors), differing from the supposed adult female in its rather smaller size 

 and much darker and less rufescent colouring ; an example of Butalis lati- 

 eostris, (Raffles), v. poonensis, Sykes, et terricolor, Hodgson; and the 

 nest of a species of Dictum, — all from Malacca. 



4. From Capt. Phayre, Commr. of Arakan. The skull and an imper- 

 fect skin of a Hare " from the east side of the range of mountains divid- 

 ing Arakan from the valley of the Irawaddi, where the S. W. monsoon is 

 much modified." It would appear to be identical with Lepus sinensis, 

 Gray, of Hardwicke's ' Illustrations of Indian Zoology,' known only by 

 that figure. The skull closely resembles that of Lepus euficaudatus, Is. 

 Geoff, (the common Bengal Hare) ; and so far as can be judged from what 

 remains of the skin (the ears having been destroyed), the general structure 

 would appear to be quite similar : but the colouring is remarkably differ- 

 ent ; being a mixture of deep tawny or rufo-fulvous with much black on 

 the upper-parts, and the under-parts whitish. The paws are black under- 

 neath, mingled with some tawny along the lower surface of the tarsus ; the 

 latter being almost pure white externally, and thus forming a remarkable 

 and striking contrast with the hue of the lower surface. Tail black above 

 and at the tip, whitish below towards its base. On the sides towards the belly 



* Indeed the sacral vertebra above noticed very probably pertained to a third 

 individual, judging from the fact that it presents the appearance of having been 

 much longer exposed to the effects of atmospheric and other destructive influences. 



