586 General Notes. [June 
Mr. A. O. Hume, about four hundred examples of mammals, 
referable to two hundred and six species. The collection is 
SAA SP valuable, since it comprises four Separate series, 
tained, respectively, at Sambhur in Rajpo Manipur 
; (northwest: of Birmah), Tenasserim, and the Malay ' Peninsula. 
Šambhur fixes the limit at which the fauna begins to lose its 
Manipur. Semnopithecus jomoralis is added to the Tonia 
fauna, and among the Malay p pra is a beautiful new Sciu- 
ropterus (S. davidsoni).—P. Z. S., January, 1886, Mr. O. Thomas. 
Mr. R. A. Sterndale notes the certain occurrence of a natural 
hybrid between Ovis hodgsoni and O. vignei, due to a ram of the 
former and larger species appropriating the ewes of a herd of 
the latter. The ram was killed by wolves, and in course of time 
the hybrids, crossed with O. vignet, showed signs of reversion to 
that type. 
Part I. of vol. clxxvi. of the Philosophical Transactions of the 
Royal Society of London contains two portions of W. K. Parker’s 
the structure and development of the skull in the 
Mammalia. The first part is devoted to the Edentata, the second 
to the Insectivora. Thirty-nine plates illustrate these treatises. 
Mr. O. Thomas describes (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., February) 
Pseudochirus forbest, a new Papuan phalanger similar to Ps. ca- 
nescens Waterhouse. An adult male was 280 mm. long without 
which measured 230 mm. It was found in the Astro- 
labe Modna of Southeastern New Guinea, at a height of two 
thousand feet. 
Mr. Thomas also diagnoses Nesonycteris woodfordi and Pteropus 
grandis, two new fruit-eating bats from the Solomon Islands. 
Dr. Monticelli contributes to the Proceedings of the London 
Zoological Society a list of the South Italian Chiroptera, including 
_ eighteen species. 
Mr. O. Thomas has described and figured, in the Proc. Zool. 
Soc., two skulls of Mustela pennantii, eee though both adult, 
exhibit variations such as have often given foundation for the 
: a the anterior part of the skull, and narrowed the pos- 
terior narial passage in the older skull. 
> of the most singular of rodents i is a phillipsi, - 
m Somali-land. a sof a t the size Of a mouse, oat from 
