180 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 2. 



8. Capt. H. B. Weston. Some portions of timber honey-combed by 

 the Teredo navalis. 



9. Mr. P. Anderson (provisionally). The carcass of a Caracal (Felis 

 caracal), from Multan ; both skin and skeleton of which have been 

 prepared. 



We have also to notice a small purchased collection of bird-skins, which 

 has yielded several species new to the museum, and among them some of 

 considerable rarity and beauty. They are from various parts of the 

 world. From China, a fine specimen of the Mandarin Duck (Aix gale- 

 riculata), in splendid plumage- From Malacca, Ierax eutolmos, Hodg- 

 son, never before recorded from so southern a locality, though known to 

 inhabit the Tenasserim provinces ; and two or three others. From Aus- 

 tralia, Tinunculus cenchroides; Accipiter torquatus,_;^. / the beau- 

 tiful Chesnut bronze-wing Pigeon, Phaps elegans ; Amadina oculea ; and 

 other species new to the museum. From S. Africa, Trogon (Apalo- 

 derma) naeina (fine) ; Hyphantornis (?) ocularius ; and Nectarinia 

 senegalensis, of extreme beauty. From America two superb Jays, 

 Cyanocorax (Uroleuca, Pr. Bonap.) cyanoleuca, Pr. Max. (Corvus oris- 

 tatellus, Tern.), and Cyanogarulus corqnatus, (Swainson) ; Ampelis 

 carolinensis (very fine) ; two Parrots, Cyanoliseus patagonicus, and 

 Microsittace squamata, (Latham, v. versicolor, Shaw, and erythrog aster, 

 Lichtenstein) ; Phibalttra flavirostris ; Tityraroseicollis ; Saltator 

 magnus, (Gm.) ; S. rubicus, Vieillot ; Callospiza cayannensis ; PlTY- 



LUS AUREIVENTRIS,^'^. ; EMBERNAGRA Sj>. ; CER2ERA CYANEA, fsem. ; DaC- 



nis cayana ; Trichas marilardica ; Tr. canicapilla (Tanagra cani- 

 capilla, Swainson, Zool. III. 1st series, pi. 174 ; Tr. Delajieldi, Audubon) ; 

 Pipra (2 sp., undetermined) ; and Tringa pectoralis : altogether an 

 interesting series of acquisitions. E. Blyth. 



Ltbrary. 

 The following books have been added to the library since Dec. last. 



Presented. 



The Annals of the Lyceum of JNatural History of New York, for 

 1851-52.— By the Lyceum. 



A Narrative of a Mission of Inquiry to the Jewish Synagogue at Kae- 

 fung-foo, 8vo. pamphlet.— By His Grace the Bishop of Victoria. 



Facsimiles of the Hebrew MSS. obtained at the Jewish Synagogue in 

 Kae-fung-foo, 8vo. pamphlet.— By the Same. 



Catalogue of the Described Coleoptcra of the United States, by F. E. 

 Melshoimer, Washington, 1853, 8vo— IW the Smithsonian Institution . 



