PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OP BENGAL, 



For April, 1865. 



The Monthly General Meeting of the Asiatic Society of Bengal was 

 held on the 5th instant. 



A. Grote, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



Presentations were announced — 



1. From Dr. C. Williams, a collection of Bird skins and some 

 Mammals. 



2. From Baboo Eajendra Mullick, specimens of 



Lophophorus Impeyanus. 

 Ceriomis satyra. 

 Eollulus (Cryptonyx) cristatus. 

 Perdix olivacea. 

 Euplocomus nycthemerus. 

 Euplocomus erythropthalmos. 

 Galloperdix Zeylonensis. 

 Otis bengalensis. 

 Buceros albirostris. 

 Palceornis columboides. 

 Anser Indica. 



3. From F. Wilson, Esq., skeletons of a Hemitragus (Capra) 

 Jemlaicus and of an Ovis nahura. 



4. From A. Grote, Esq., a specimen of a Felis chaus. 



5. From T. Peachey, Esq., three stone images. 



6. From Professor Abbe Joseph Stabile, a copy of his work 

 entitled " Mollusques Terrestres Vivants du Piemont." 



7. From J. Mulheran, Esq., four Stereographic Views of stone 

 cromlechs and crosses in the Nizam's territory. 



