1853. J Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 415 



10. Mr. E. Wellend, of the Sailor's Home. A fine specimen of the 

 * Wattle-bird' of N. Zealand, Callceas cinerea, (Forster). 



11. Capt. R. Tytler, 38th Light Infantry. Some bird-skins from 

 Dacca, including perhaps a new Cisticola, not uncommon in that vici- 

 nity ; # also Malacopteron" Abbotti, nobis, there far from rare, though 

 previously known only from the Burmese provinces. Capt. Tytler remarks 

 that Scturus palmarum, so extremely common about Calcutta, is replaced 

 at Dacca by Sc. lokroides, Hodgson (a skin of which is sent); and 

 among the common birds, Megalaima lineata similarly replaces M. 

 asiatica, and Micropternus phaioceps replaces Brachypternus auran- 

 tius, &c. The skin of a Pelican shot near Dacca, is that of the true P. 

 onocrotalus, L., of which we never before saw an Indian specimen. A 

 Hare supposed by Capt. Tytler, to be distinct, appears to be the common 

 Lepus rtjpicaudatits of all Lower Bengal ; but L. hispidus he described 

 to be also there not uncommon. 



12. H. W. Bennet, Esq. The body of a young Ursus malayanus. 



13. C. Chapman, Esq., C. S. Skin of a melanoid Cervus axis, L., 

 procured in Mymunseng. General colour very dark brown, paler below, 

 and nigrescent along the spine ; the ordinary spots barely traceable. In 

 this phase of colouring, the species illustrates the Cervus nudipalpebra. 

 Ogilby, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 136 ; founded on a specimen in the museum of 

 the Zoological Society. 



14. A. Campbell, Esq., Darjiling. Skin of a female Cervus Wal- 

 lichii, in addition to the male presented on a former occasion ;f and also 

 two skins of a small Jackal-like animal from Tibet, the Vulpes ferrila- 

 tus, Hodgson. 



* Quite distinct from the common C. cursitans, (Franklin,) an example of 

 which also is sent in breeding phase of plumage, wherein the pale lateral margins to 

 the coronal feathers have all but disappeared, leaving the crown streakless blackish- 

 brown : but it closely approximates C. erythrocephala, Jerdon, nobis, J. A. S, 

 XX., 523, from which it differs in having the crown, breast and flanks, and lower 

 tail- coverts, of a subdued white or dull yellowish-white faintly tinged with rufous, 

 instead of being deep ferruginous, — and there is no rufous tinge on the upper- 

 parts except very faintly on the rump and upper tail-coverts. In both the tail is 

 much less deeply graduated than in C. cursitans, and of a dusky or blackish 

 hue, with only an exceedingly slight pale edge at tip. Of several specimens 

 procured, all were quite similar. 



f Here may be mentioned, that we have just seen a superb pair of Wapiti 

 antlers, which much exceed in size the finest yet obtained of those of the Shou, 

 and have the crowns further subdivided. 



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