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MR. BUSK ON VEDDAH SKULLS. 



more surprising fact that, ravenous as the Ling is known to be, 

 not a single instance of a Crustacean animal have I met with in 

 its stomach. Entire fishes of a variety of kinds are of very frequent 

 occurrence ; and it was but lately that seven Plaice, of which the 

 smallest measured six inches in length, and the largest ten, were 

 found in the stomach of a Ling of moderate size. The following 

 list of the stalk-eyed Crustaceans which I have met with in the 

 stomachs of the Cod and Haddock (and some of them in consider- 

 able numbers) will bear witness to the large number of these ani- 

 mals which exist in the ground frequented by the fishes referred 

 to, at the Cornish entrance to the British Channel. 



List of Crustaceans found in the stomach of the Cod : — 



Achaeus Cranchii. 

 Alpheus ruber. 

 Atelecyclus heterodon. 

 Cancer Pagurus. 

 Corystes Cassivelaunus. 

 Eurynoma aspera. 

 Galathea Andrewsii. 



dispersa. 



squamifera. 



strigosa. 



Gebia deltura. 



stellata. 



Gonoplax angulata. 

 Hyas coarctatus. 

 Inachus Dorsettensis. 



Inachus Dorhynchus. 



leptochirus. 



Munida Rondeletii. 

 Nika Couchii. 



edulis. 



Pagurus Bernhardus. 

 Portunus arcuatus. 



corrugatus. 



marraoreus. 



pusillus. 



Scyllarus arctus (a single example). 

 Squilla Imantis. 



Desraarestii. 



Stenorhynchus Phalangium. 



Observations on some Skulls from Ceylon, said to be those of 

 Veddahs. By Geoeoe Busk, Esq., E.E.S., Sec. L.S. 



[Read March 20, 1862.] 



Some of the aboriginal or supposed aboriginal inhabitants of 

 Ceylon, now for the most part confined to the Hill-districts of 

 the island, are known under the name of Veddahs, or Vaddahs. 

 Willi respect to their origin and relations we are much in the 

 dark. The skulls belonging to this people (exhibited at the meet- 

 ing) consist of four (two, apparently, of young subjects) recently 

 sent from Ceylon to Dr. Hooker by Mr. Thwaitcs, and two be- 

 longing to Dr. Stephen Ward. Besides these, there is a single 

 cranium of the lame race in the Museum of the Jioyal College 

 of* Surgeons, and seven or eight in the extensive and valuable 

 eraaiological collection of Mr. J. Barnard Davis, which he has 

 kindly allowed me fully to examine and measure. From this 



