Collections. 



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described at p. 401, and figured PL XIII and XIV of the 

 present volume. Capt. Gordon remarks, the species is most 

 abundant in Moneypore valley ; that the rainy season, which 

 is the time of breeding, will be the most favourable for ob- 

 taining young specimens, when as many of them as can be 

 kept alive he has kindly promised to send down to Calcutta 

 next winter. We have sent skeletons and skins of this spe- 

 cies to the Garden of Plants, Paris ; as well to the collection 

 at the India House, on the part of Capt. Guthrie, to whom 

 we have been indebted for these specimens. 



