1862.] 
Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 331 
The American Journal of Science and Arts, Yol. XXXIII. No. 08. 
Numismatic Chronicle No. 5 for March 1862. 
Westminster Review for April, 1862. 
The Literary Gazette, Nos. 195 to 198. 
Natural History Review for April, 1862. 
The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Third Series, Vol. IX, 
No. 52. 
Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Nos. 1 and 2 for 1862. 
Revue des Deux Mondes, Tome XXXVIII. for 15th March and 1st April, 
1862. 
Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de TAcademie des Sciences, 
Tome LIY. Nos. 9, 10, 11 and 12. 
Mahabhashya—Edited by Dr. J. R. Ballantyne, Vol. I. 
Christianity contrasted with Hindu Philosophy—By Dr. J. R. Ballantyne. 
Lectures on the Science of Language delivered at the Royal Institution— 
By Prof. Max Muller. 
Makamut Hameedee, 
4i th June, 1862. La'lgopa'l Dutt. 
Report of Curator , Zoological Department , February, 1862. 
During the long interval that has elapsed since the publication of 
my last report, the Society’s collection of Vertebrata has been 
largely increased, and we have been favoured with numerous valuable 
donations. 
1. From Col. A. P. Phayre, Chief Commissioner of British 
Burma, a large collection principally of bird-skins, collected mostly 
in the Tonghoo district of the valley of the Sitang and on the route 
thither across the hills from that of the Irawadi, in 1860. Also 
some specimens of mammalia, which are as follow. 
Viverra megaspila, nobis, n. s. (or distinguishable race). Flat 
skins from vicinity of Prome. There are four recognisable races of 
Asiatic Civet, all of which differ from the African Y. civetta, L., in 
the erectile mane commencing between the shoulders instead of 
between the ears. Three of them are of the same large size as the 
African species, the fourth being (so far as I have seen) constantly 
much smaller. One, Y. zibetiia, L., is well known from Buffon’s 
figure, and is at once distinguished from all the others by the compa¬ 
rative indistinctness of its body-markings. It is common in Bengal, 
