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contrary. Besides, quite a young male Rambi now belonging to Capt. 

 S. R. Tickell, not •§■ grown during the time that I took care of it for him, 

 had already a conspicuously developed single sagittal crest, with the 

 lamdoidal ridges uniting to form it equally strongly marked, as seen in the 

 living animal. Then, as before related, I have seen and attentively 

 examined a living full grown female Rambi, which exhibited no sign of 

 the facial callosities which exist in both sexes of the Rappan : and we 

 possess the stuffed skin of a more than \ grown male Rambi, which also 

 shews no trace of these callosities ; whereas Sir J. Brooke states, that 

 some young Pappans which he had shipped " (one of them not a year old, 

 with two false molars,) shew them prominently." 



I have lately also received a communication from Sir J. Brooke, wherein 

 he states, that— "A gentleman with me killed about a year ago a female 

 Orang measuring from head to heel 5 ft. ; and she was said to be small 

 in comparison with a male before killed by a Malay. This female Orang 

 had large cheek callosities." 



Prof. Owen continues — "The short-armed species can hardly be a 

 variety of moeio ; and one other instance of the curtailed development 

 of the radius would quite satisfy me, other characters accompanying it, 

 of this extremely interesting addition to the catalogue of anthropoid apes." 

 — E. B. 



February, 1854. 



Our accessions to the Museum for the last three months are as follow : 

 1. M. Alfred Malherbe, Metz. A fine collection chiefly of bird-skins, 

 with some mammalia and reptiles, from Europe and N. Africa (Algiers). 

 Among the mammalia are Rhinolophus unihastatus, Scotophilus 

 serotinus, and Plecotus aueitus : Myoxus glis ; and a small Shrew 

 sent in spirit as Croctdura leucodon, but which appears to be merely 

 the common Corsira vulgaris (v. Sorex tetragonurus, tyc.) 



Of birds, the most acceptable are Erythropus vespertinus (parti- 

 cularly fine male) ; Athene psilodactyla, (L., v. noctua, Eetz., nee 

 Tern.), from Algeria; Lanius meridionalis, Algiers; Rutictlla tithys, 

 mas. ; Cyanecula (with white breast-spot) ; Anthus aquaticus (verus) ; 



BUDYTES NEGLECTA ; MONTIFRINGILLA NIVALIS ; # HeRODIAS VERANY 



* Type of Montifringilla, Brehm ; and differing only from restricted Frin- 

 gilla (as exemplified by the British Chaffinch and Bramblefinch, and the somewhat 

 aberrant Himalayan Fr. Burtoni, — Carduelis Burtoni, Gould, Fr. erythrophrys , 

 nobis), by its longer wings and somewhat broader tail, — therein approximating the 



