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shew well in the spacious aviaries allotted to them. The yellow- 
quilled Porcupine (Malabaricus, Sclater,) turns out to be my H. Ben- 
galensis, the yellow colour of the quills being only temporary. The 
3 handed Armadillo is a most interesting form, very different from 
Dasypus, and considerably akin to Glyptodon. There are a fine 
healthy pair of Chimpanzees, and female Orang-utan ; but no Gibbons, 
which are particularly wanted; especially as there seems every pros- 
pect now of these Apes living, as they are so very much better accom- 
modated. The Gazella dama lately added to the Garden is a fine 
acquisition ; and Burchell’s Zebra has bred. The Eagle you sent has 
assumed the mature plumage ; and I think I may say that all, which 
you have sent, are doing well, the 2 Mycterie, 2 Tantali, also pair of 
Hematornis Elgini, and pair of Hudynamys orientalis &e. Gallo- 
phasis Uineatus has bred; and there is a young hen } Swinhoer; also a 
half-bred Ocellated Turkey. Males of Phanicura Reeves and Diar- 
digallus. Also the Heliornis or ‘ Sun Bittern’ (a very curious form) ; and 
the black-necked Swans. Bengal Floriken in first-rate summer dress. 
It was sent by Babu Rajendro Mullick in 1857. How is he getting on, 
and his store of live-stock ? Three living Apteryx / Sturgeon still doing 
well. Garrulax Sinensis from China, quite lively and well: the same 
as the Tenasserim species. The new Cassowary which I described 
turns out to be the finest of them all. A living female at Amsterdam ; 
and its egg quite different from that of common Cassowary, or of 
Mooruk. I have seen the magnificent fossil head in the British Museum 
of Elephas primigenius lately dug up near Iford in Essex, with superb 
tusks in socket—not curled up as in the Siberian specimens so often 
figured. Head very different from that of . Indicus, more like Afri- 
canus, but the grinders are of the same type as the former. Another fine 
accession to the B. M. is an enormous aérolite from Australia, 
I must now tell you a few results of interest at which I have arrived 
concerning Indian birds. The paper is a very long one, and will probably 
spread over the Jbzs for all next year. When I have quite finished 
it, I contemplate working out the birds of the Indo-Chinese province 
or sub-region, and then those of the Malayan Peninsula. You may 
begin by expunging from your list Cotyle sub-soccata (identical with 
Sinensis), Ruticilla phenicura (as distinct from pheenicwroides), Phyl- 
loscopus trochilus (disavowed now as Indian by Gould), and I suspect 
