123 
A. B. Adult and j^oung, from Sikhim 
Tarai. Presented by W. T. Blanford, Esq. 
(1857), J. A, S. XXVI, 284. 
303. Rh. castaneus, Blyth, J. A. S, XII, 1007. 
Syn. Rh. hadius apud nos, J. A, S. XII, 925. 
Hab. Burmese region, from Arakan to Mergui. 
A. B. Specimens from Arakan. Presented 
by Colonel Pliayre (1843). C. Skeleton of 
A. D. Specimen from S. Arakan. Pre- 
sented by W. T. Blanford, Esq. (1862). E, 
Example in spirit, from Mergui. Presented 
by Major Berdmore (1855), J. A, S, 
XXIY, 187. 
Genus Castor, L. 
284. C. EUROP^us, Owen. 
Syn. (?) C. gallia, Geoif., Mamm, Lithog. t. — 
(apud Gray, Brit, Mus. Catal., Mammalia, 
p. 120).* 
Hab, Europe (where now nearly extinct, though 
the race has been multiplied of late years, 
by the Austrian Emperor, in at least one of his 
extensive parks on the banks of the Danube) ; 
Siberia (at least formerly, vide Strahlenberg): 
A former inhabitant of the British Islands. 
A, Stuffed specimen from Norway. Pre- 
sented by the Koyal University of Christiania 
(1844). (One of only two that had been 
killed in Norway during the preceding twenty 
years). 
Genus Fiber, Cuv. ( Ondatra, Lacepede ; Simotes, G. 
Fischer, t 
305. F.'zibethicus. 
Syn. Castor zihethicus, L. 
Ondatra americana, Tiedmann. 
* This name would hold precedence for the European Beaver, if it can be 
proved to apply to it specially. 
f This name was since applied by myself to a Caculine genus of birds, based 
on the Cuculus leucolophos, S. Miiller ; and subsequently to one of Ophidia 
by MM. Dumeril and Bibron. 
