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Show 766 MR. ST. GEORGE MIVART ON THE [June 27, pets, met with an untimely end, being stolen and killed for food by rapacious Burmese officials. By this the species appears to be capable of easy domestication, although said by some invariably to pine away and die after capture. The horns of the species are, if large, kept by the natives for making handles for sickles ; if small, they are of no value, and either thrown away or cut up and used as pegs. As to medicinal qualities, when a buffaloe is bitten by a snake, the horn of the Thamyn ground to powder is mixed with a solution of the leaves of the "yekazoon'! (Ipomcea, sp.), or wild convolvulus, and given internally as a dose. It is said to cure the bitten animal immediately. No other part of the beast appears to be used medicinally, and the above-mentioned nostrum is of no avail for the human race. 13. Notes on the Myology of Iguana tuberculata. By S T. G E O R G E M I V A R T , F.L.S., Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at St. Mary's Hospital. The muscles of Saurian Reptiles (in which group I by no means include the Crocodilia) have not hitherto, as far as I know, been described in any detail, and have scarcely at all been figured. Many facts have certainly been recorded by Meckel*; and Heusingerf has also published interesting notices (mainly referring, however, to those forms in which the limbs are rudimentary); but the greatest and most accurate record of saurian myology as yet accessible is that given in the second part of Professor Stannius's new edition of his 'Anatomy of the Vertebrata'*]:. It has been suggested to m e that a series of notices, accompanied hy woodcuts, of the main peculiarities presented by the myology of different oviparous vertebrates would be a not undesirable contribution to comparative anatomy ; and I have now the honour of laying before the Zoological Society the results of m y dissection of a fine specimen of Iguana tuberculata, for the opportunity of making which I am indebted to the rich stores of the collection of the Roval College of Surgeons, and to the kindness of m y friend Mr. W . H. Flower. A correct determination of Saurian muscles, especially those of the posterior extremity, is not to be hoped for in a first attempt. I have therefore thought it well to begin with the Iguana, because it is a common species, readily procurable, on which account my errors and misinterpretations will be the more easily rectified, * Traite general d'Anatomie comparee, par J. F. Meckel: traduit de l'alle-mand par M M . Eiester et Alph. Sanson (Paris, 1829): tome v. lre partie, et tome viii. t In Zeitschrift fiir organ. Physik. Bd. iii. lift. 5. p. 481. % Handbuch der Zootomie, von Siebold und Stannius. Zweiter Theil. Die Wirbelthiere. Zweite Auflage. Zweites Buch. Die Amphioirn (Berlin 18."i6*) pp. 100,117, 122, 126, 133. h |