48. Sceintific Intelligence. [No. 1, 
Sorentiric IyTELLIGENCE. 
Mr. T. Tomlinson, late Superintendent of the Barrackpore Park, has 



















recently succeeded in hatching an Ostrich by placing the fresh-laid egg 
in a box lined with straw and exposing it to the sun by day for some 
weeks, keeping it under a domestic fowl during the night. To 
prevent one side of the egg being more exposed than the other, it 
was occasionally turned over. The new born bird is doing well. 

Col. Dalton from Chota-Nagpur announces the discovery of a vein 
of lead in a hill named Puttia near the village of Pelowa, Tuppeh 
Ramkola, in Sirgooja. 
From an analysis of the specimen forwarded by Col. Dalton, it 
appears to be pure galena with a small trace of silver and the ore is 
tractable. When fairly cleared, its value would be in England from 12£ 
to 13£ per ton. An attempt to work the mine was made, but the 
outturn not proving profitable, it was abandoned. 

The following is from our late Curator :-— 
Belmont, St. Briavel’s, 
W. Gloucestershire, Dec. 2, 1864. 
My pear Grote,—In the Reader for November 19th, you will read 
that a paper was read by me at the Zoological Society on November 
8th; but I was not there, having left a short paper with Sclater. In 
the Proceedings, p. 335 of our Journal, I observe ‘ Felis Jacquemontii’ 
mentioned. This I consider to be merely the longer-furred mountain 
variety of F’. chaus ; F’. ornata too, I now refer to F. torquata, F. Cuv. ; 
and celidogaster turns out to be African, and distinct from viverrina, 
F. torquata of Sykes being a striped domestic Indian cat,—at least 
identical with the latter, whether or not descended from domestic 
stock. A dead Tiger from Barrackpore is mentioned in the same page 
of the Journal. I hope this was skeletonized, because I could get 
you a Megaceros skeleton in exchange for it! Lastly, about the “ new 
species of Varranus” in the same page, I presume this to be the 
Hydrosaurus noticed by me from the Andamans and Nicobars, which 
I could not perceive to differ structurally from H. Salvator. I suppose 
