6 
2 Jaws and several teeth of fossil elephant. 
7 jaws and teeth of Mastodon, Hippopotamus, &c. 
8 fragments of Alligators’ Jaws. 
47 saurian (Crocodile) vertebrae. 
170 fragments of Emys and Trionyx shell. 
1 humerus of Rhinoceros. 
200 unclassified fragments of Bone. 
435. 
The Ava specimens are very often strongly impregnated with 
hydrate of iron, black and heavy with a gritty or gravelly 
matrix. But some of the Sewalik localities yield specimens 
having the same characters, so that when placed together they 
can hardly be distinguished. In searching for Col. Burney’s 
435 specimens, only one was found namely a Crocodile’s vertebra 
(No. A. 255) bearing an Ava label. Of the two jaws and 
several teeth of fossil Elephant, not one was met with, which 
could confidently be assigned to Ava. The same was the case with 
Hippopotamus, although a lower jaw from Col. Burney containing 
all the incisors is specially described (J. A. S. Yol. YI. p. 1099.) 
All the black, iron infiltrated fragments of Emys and Trionyx 
bones scattered about the different rooms, were brought together 
to try and make up 170 pieces mentioned in the list. I have 
misgivings now that several of the Stegodon group of elephant 
molars assigned to the Ava catalogue were in reality yielded by 
the Sewalik Hills : and that the episternal portions of the 
Gigantic Tortoise attributed in the catalogue to the latter may 
have been derived from Ava. In short the Ava portion of the 
Catalogue is wholly conjectural and therefore untrustworthy. 
But what help was there for it, where only one specimen out of 
435, bore a label to distinguish them from hundreds of others? 
The small collection of Fossil bones from Ava presented by Mr. 
J. Calder in 1831, and partly described in the Gleanings Yol. III. 
p. 161 was deferred to the last, and then from want of time left 
uncatalogued. Fortunately the specimens have been kept 
