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Zoological Miscellany. 
Wonderful Spiroglyphus, Spiroglyphus mirahilis, n. s. Chemnitz. 
IX. t, 116, f. 999. Jun. Serpula spirorbis, var. Dillvv. from Chemn.) 
The shell, when young, is brown and pellucid, nearly regularly spiral, 
the animal clearing a cavity before the mouth of the shell as it proceeds ; 
when it gets older it becomes white and opaque, transversely ridged, and 
at length the shell takes a curved course of considerable extent, and gra- 
dually rounds in till it gets the mouth into the centre of the spire, where 
it appears to remain stationary. In my collection. On Haliotis splendens. 
This may be the Spiroglyphus annulatus of Baud, Mem. t. 28, cop. in to 
Bose. 1. 1, 7, f. 5, but his account is so short, and his figure so indistinct, 
that it is impossible to determine ; he describes a second species, S. poli- 
tus, which is equally doubtful, perhaps the young of this. 
Lamarck Vermilia suherenata, Lam. Hist. V. 370, perhaps belongs to 
this genus, if so, he describes the operculum as very shortly conical. 
The Spirorbis ambiguus of Fleming, Edin. Phil. Jour. XII. t. 9. A fos- 
sil appears also to belong to this genus. 
Description of two species of Mammalia, one forming a genus inter- 
mediate between Viverra and Ictides. 
Gen. Paguma. 
Teeth like Viverra in number, the grinders bluntly tubercular ; the 
true carnivorous teeth of upper jaw with an internal lobe ; the tubercular 
grinders nearly square, the first rather narrower externally, the last 
tubercular ; false grinders small. The hind feet plantigrade, indexed, 
sole, bald, callous; tail long, tapering. This genus has much of the 
colouring of the genus Ictides with the odour, and the teeth like the 
Viverra, but not so sharply lobed. 
Masked Paguma. Paguma larvata. Viverra larvata, Spicileg. ZooL 
Gido larvatus, Hamm. Smith, Griffith. Trans. Anim. King. t. Grey; 
band across the forehead, and one down the centre of the face, white ; 
end of tail, blackish. China 
Pale Genette. Viverra pallida. Neck, yellow grey brown, browner 
on the middle of the back and over the back of the neck, edged on each 
side with a narrow- blackish band ; and with six or seven indistinct longi- 
tudinal blackish bands on the back, and small indistinct blackish spots 
on the flanks and thighs; feet, purplish brown; chin and beneath, 
dirty white ; tail, tapering, yellow brown, with seven narrow purplish 
brown rings and a whitish tip. Length 32; tail, 12 inches. China. 
lAko^Viverra Rasse, but paler; band and spot fewer, more indistinct; 
tail, longer and more bushy ; under part of body not spotted or banded. 
Description of two species of painted Snipe, (Rynch^ea.) 
Many authors have been induced, from the variation of the colour 
that the plumage of these birds undergo, to consider them as several 
species; but recently Herr. Temminck, and after him M. Cuvier has 
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