50 Scientific Intelligence. [No. 1, 
and spurred. Hodgson’s Cr. tibetanum still remains unique, I believe. 
The localities assigned to many specimens in the British Museum are 
unreliable. Thus the Burmese lineated or pencilled Kalij is assigned to 
Bootan, and various Tenasserim squirrels, also to Bootan, all doubtless 
from the same collection, but received with the erroneous locality from 
the old India-house, The distinctions we recognise between Indian, 
Indo-Chinese and Malayan fawne are little understood by naturalists 
here who will have all alike, to be Indian. Giinther’s Indian reptiles, 
for example. About Sikhim and Asim monkeys. I look upon 
assamensis (original specimen in India museum,) as a mere variety 
(not unlikely an individual, var.) of rhesus, wanting the fulvous hue 
of the hair on the hind-parts. JZ. pelops I know little of, but Jerdon 
should get this at Masuri. Of the Lungoors, I know nothing of more 
than one Himalayan species, which is Hodgson’s schistaceus. Does 
true entellus range, into Asém, and is it not the Hunumén of the 
table-land of 8. India? Is not priamus peculiar to the ghats and 
mountainous country, as Johnii (verus) is certainly peculiar to the 
W. ghits? Ido not remember who wrote the Review of Jerdon’s 
work in the Annals, and cannot refer to it here. Smythe has yet to 
shoot the Shau, and perhaps the Tibetan Lynx. Is it the wild yak 
he thinks of sending home alive? The tame breed here as regularly as 
domestic cattle. A young bull was calved last year, and a cow this year, 
at the Zoological Gardens; both females hornless. Pallas refers to wild 
two-humped camels in the Mongolian deserts; and not many years 
ago the existence of wild yaks was doubted by Hutton and others, 
In the long stretch of desert country between the Red Sea and the 
valley of the Nile wild one-humped camels are numerous; and I see 
no reason why these should not be aboriginally wild, like genuine Asinus 
vulgaris in Africa (the a, toeenispus, Henglin). There is a fine male of the 






























latter now in the Zoological Gardens, a most decided and unmistakeable 
true donkey or Onager ; and the series of wild asinine animals (includ- 
ing zebras) is complete, every known race or species being 
represented. All of the animals brought by Thompson were alive 
when I left London and the Hornbills in first rate condition. The 
Aceros nipalensis would be a grand prize; have not both sexes 
the rufous plumage in the nest? Reversing the usual arrange-— 
ment, in Rhynchea and in Turnia pugnaa, the adult females are the 
