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Show 1900.] MR. F. E. BEDDARD ON BASSARICYON ALLENI. 661 The Secretary called the attention of the Meeting to an article by Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker (of Dibrughur), F.Z.S., which had lately appeared in the ' Asian,' February 1900, concerning the Gaur (Bos gaurus) and the Gayal (Bos frontalis). After a careful study of the subject for several years, Mr. Stuart Baker had come to the conclusion that the Gayal was simply a domestic form of the Gaur, and that the differences between them were produced by domestication. A copy of Mr. Stuart Baker's paper upon this subject had been deposited in the Society's Library. Mr. G. A. Boulenger exhibited a remarkably large specimen of a Bornean Tortoise, recently described by him under the name of Liemgs inornata. The specimen, obtained by Mr. C. Hose in Lake Majang, had a carapace length of 64 centimetres. Mr. Boulenger at the same time pointed out that the name proposed by him would have to give way to the prior one of Brookia baileyi, which had been proposed by Mr. E. Bartlett, although the description given by that gentleman could not be regarded as a satisfactory one. Dr. Sieben-rock, of Vienna, had already shown that the skull described by the late Dr. G. Baur as Adelochelys crassa belonged to Liemgs inornata. The synonymy of Brookia bailegi would stand as follows:- Hardella bailegi, E. Bartlett, Sarawak Gazette, May 1, 1895. Brookeia bailegi, E. Bartlett, Sarawak Gazette, June 1,1896, and Note-book Sarawak, No. 2, 1896, p. 81; Bouleng. Zool. Bee. 1897, Bept. p. 26. Adelochelys crassa, Baur, Anat. Anz. xii. 1896, p. 314, fig. Liemys inornata, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (6) xix. 1897, p. 469 ;' Siebenrock, Sitzb. Ak. Wien, cvi. 1, 1897, p. 248. Tbe following papers were read:- 1. On the Anatomy of Bassaricyon alleni. By FRANK E. B E D D A R D , M.A., F.B.S., Prosector and Vice-Secretary of the Society. [Received May 1, 1900.] A specimen of this rare American Carnivore, which was acquired by the Society in 1894 \ having died, I am able to call the attention of the Society to some new facts in its anatomy. The species to which it belongs, B. cdleni, was described some years ago by Mr. Thomas 2 and figured. Mr. Thomas commented upon the close likeuess which the animal bears to the Kinkajou (Cercoleptes), a likeness emphasized by the fact that the individual now under consideration was presented to the Society as a Kinkajou. To Mr. Thomas this singularly close resemblance 1 P. Z. S. 1895, p. 521. 2 " On Mammals from Ecuador," P. Z. S. 1880, p. 397, pi. xxxviii. |
