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5. From Capt. T. Sparkes, Ramri. The two rami of the lower jaw vf 

 the Whale (or Rorqual, Bal^enoptera), which was stranded last year upon 

 Juggoo or Amherst Island, (S. of Ramri island,) as noticed in XXI, 

 359 ; but they prove to be larger by one-half than Capt. Sparkes had 

 supposed, measuring 21 ft. in length, minus an inch or two. This mag- 

 nificent specimen is now fixed up in the museum, as experience has shown 

 that such bones cannot, in this country, be permanently exposed to the wea- 

 ther with impunity.* The length of the left radius of this Horqual mea- 

 sures 37 in. ; the body of a sacral vertebra is 15 in. deep, by 16 in. broad, 

 and nearly 14 in. in extreme length. A lumbar vertebra is somewhat smaller, 

 with spinal apophyses measuring 27 in. ; expanse of lateral apophyses, 

 from tip to tip, 40 in. ; and extreme height of the tip of the dorsal apo- 

 physis from the ground, 37 or 38 in. 



6. From Mr. W. W. JNlcholls, Sarawak. The nearly perfect skele- 

 ton of an adult wild Orang-utan, of the peculiar species indicated by Sir 

 J. Brooke by the name Mias Pappan. In a memoir founded upon this 

 and other specimens, the existence of four distinct specific types of the 

 genus Orang-utan is rendered extremely probable, if not absolutely proved ; 

 and our museum contains adult female skeletons of three of these species, 

 and skulls of adults of both sexes of the fourth species. 



7. Dr. Fayrer, attached to the Hospital Staff, Rangoon. Several spe- 

 cimens of a Bat, Taphozous longimanus, (Hardwicke), the only two 

 adult males having a strong rufous tinge. Also an example of Sciueus 

 lokroides, Hodgson, var., with no decided rufous tinge on the back. Of 

 birds, Athene cuculoides, (Vigors), and some others of common occur- 

 rence. Of reptiles, Gecko verus, — Calotes mystaceus, — C. versico- 

 lor, — and Bungarus fasciatus. 



8. From Lieut. Hitchison, I. 1ST., of the ' Mozuffer' S. V. Three 

 small specimens of a Water Snake, of the supposed variety of Homo- 

 lopsis leucobalia described by Dr. Cantor, and which is Sipsirina 

 Hardtoichii, Gray, of Hardvvicke's ' Illustrations.' 



9. Walter Elliot, Esq., Madras C. S. Two skins of Htstrix hir-. 

 sutirostris, Brandt (H. leucura, Sykes), from Vizagapatam ; obligingly 

 sent for comparison with examples from other parts of the country. 



shoulder-pit but not the orbital spine, and C. minor the orbital spine but not the 

 shoulder pit, which are combined in C. emma ; while the pit before the shoulder 

 occurs in C. mystaceus and C. Rouxi of Burma and Ceylon, and also in two 

 species of S. India ohtained by Mr. Jerdon. 



* A varnish might, however, be tried with probable advantage. 



