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Show 1868.] LETTER FROM PROF. SPENCER F. BAIRD. 183 March 12, 1868. George Busk, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. Mr. P. L. Sclater exhibited a stuffed specimen of a Monkey (Cercoeebus albigena*) from Mr. J. J. Monteiro's collection, which had been procured by that gentleman from Cabinda, north of the river Congo. The only exact locality previously recorded for this species was stated to be Gaboon (Du Chaillu), whence it would appear to extend down the northern bank of the Congo. An extract was read from a letter addressed to Mr. Sclater by Dr. W . Peters, For. Memb., stating that a skull of the singular Rodent lately described by M . Alphonse Milne-Edwards under the name Lophiomys imhausii, in the zootomical collection at Berlin, had been obtained by Dr. Schweinfurth from the tombs of Maman, northwards of Kassala in Upper Nubia. Mr. Sclater remarked that this fact was of great importance as giving an indication of the true patria of this Mammal, which was unknown to M . Milne-Edwards, and stated that he had particularly called the attention of Mr. Jesse, who was accompanying the Abyssinian Expedition, to the desirability of obtaining specimens of it. A letter was read from Prof. Spencer F. Baird, For. Memb., dated Cathartes californianus, jr. * Presbytes albigena, Gray, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 77, t. 16 ; Murie, P. Z. S. 18G5, p. 740. |
