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Show 1895.] PROF. G. B. HOWES O N T H E S K U L L O F A RABBIT. 521 previously received by the Society was the female presented by Mr. A. Grote in 1867, which was figured in the Society's Transactions (vol. vii. pis. xxxvii.-xxxviii.); see also P. Z. S. 1867, p. 821. I also take this opportunity of mentioning that the animal presented to the Society on the 28th March, 1894, by Mr. A. Murray. and entered as a Kinkajou (as it was called by the donor), appears to be a specimen of the rare American Carnivore Bassaricyon alleni, Thomas, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 397, pi. xxxviii., with the apical portion of the tail removed. Mr. Murray informs us that this specimen was captured in the woods at Bastrica on the Essequibo River, British Guiana. Referring to his note on the occurrence of the Barbary Sheep (Ovis tragelaphus) in Egypt, read on January 15th last (see P. Z. S. 1895, p. 85), Mr. Sclater exhibited the head of this sheep, obtained by Captain J. G. Dunning near W a d y Haifa, which, at the time of reading his note, M r . Sclater had spoken of as " not having been received," but which had arrived since. Mr. Sclater said there could be no doubt as to the specimen in question belonging to the Barbary Sheep, Ovis tragelaphus. Captain Dunning, having unfortunately lost his life in Uganda, Mr. Sclater stated that he proposed to deposit the present specimen in the British Museum. Mr. Sclater exhibited the skin of a Humming-bird (Anthocephala berlepschi, Salvin, Ibis, 1894, p. 120), which he had received in a letter addressed to him by Mr. Robert B. White, C.M.Z.S., from Palencia, a department of Cauca, Republic of Colombia, April 15th, 1895. Mr. White observed that this species until recently was supposed to be unknown in Colombia ; he had lately found it, but only in one locality, in the extreme south of the Magdalena Valley, where it was by no means easy to obtain it. Prof. G. B. Howes exhibited the skull of a Rabbit destitute of the second pair of upper incisors, which he owed to the acumen of his Laboratory Attendant, J. E. Redsull. The animal from which this specimen had been obtained was an old " Hare-coloured" or " Belgian" Rabbit, purchased in the market, and was in no other respect observed to be abnormal. Prof. Howes had met with specimens showing the absence of one of the smaller incisors on the right and on the left side, and one in which the left tooth was wanting, that of the right being greatly hypertrophied, its alveolus beiug almost as large in area as that of the first incisor *. As the skull exhibited was the first, among some thousands which had passed through his hands, in Specimens of these were exhibited. |