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Show 1867.] DR. J. MURIE ON THE EMU. 405 figure is by no means a characteristic one. The Cat has not been brought from Himalaya by any of the numerous sportsmen and collectors that have searched that country. It is not known to Mr. Blyth, nor to any other Indian zoologist to whom I have shown it; indeed Mr. Blyth states that he believes it to be a South American Cat. The examination of the skull shows that it forms a group by itself; and in my paper, read at the last Meeting but one, I formed for it a genus under the name of Pardalina. As the species has not been well described, I herewith add a description of the type specimen: - PARDALINA WARWICKII. (Pl. XXV.) B.M. Fur short, dusky whitish brown; chin, streak on cheek, and throat white ; chest and underside paler, black-spotted ; crown and nape with four, cheek with two, and between the withers one black streak; the four feet and body covered with very numerous, equidistant, nearly equal-sized small black spots; throat, chest, upper part of the inside and outside of fore and hind legs black-banded; tail spotted at the lower half, ringed at the end, with a black tip ; ears black, with a large white spot. Leopardus himalayanus, Gray, Cat. Mamm. B. M. p. 44. "Felis himalayanus, Warwick," Jardine's Nat. Libr. t. 24 (not good). Hab. Himalaya (Cross, Warwick). Skull short, broad, length 4| inches, width 3 inches 2 lines ; face short, broad ; nasals moderately broad ; forehead convex, rhombic ; orbits rather small, incomplete behind. The skull is very unlike that of Felis viverrina. 3. O n the Tracheal Pouch of the E m u (Dromceus novee-hollandice, Vieill.). By J A M E S M U R I E , M.D., F.Gr.S., Prosector to the Zoological Society. History.-Peter J. J. de Fremery, in a concise Academical Thesis upon the Osteology of the Emu, published in 1819*, first pointed out in this struthious bird the existence of an anterior aperture in the trachea. The late Dr. Robert Knox, when Lecturer on Anatomy at Edinburgh, independently discovered and communicated to the scientific world as new the fact of this bird's possessing a most remarkable "large muscular bag" opening into the windpipe. His paper, "Observations on the Anatomical Structure of the Cassowary of New Holland," was read before the Wemerian Natural History Society on the 26th AApril, 1823, and subsequently published in the ' Edinburgh Philosophical Journal' for 1823-24, vol. x. p. 132. In the same volume (p. 137) he added "Additional Observations on the Structure of the Trachea in the Cassowary Emu of New Hol- * " Specimen Zoologicum sistens observationes praesertim osteologicas de Ca-suario Nova; Hollandia?." |
