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Show 1866.] DR. SCHLEGEL ON NEW ANIMALS FROM MADAGASCAR. 419 10. Three Formosan Pigs (Sus taivanus, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 383), received along with the preceding. Two of these specimens were of uniform brown coloration, as described by Mr. Swinhoe, I. c. The third bore a conspicuous white patch, and gave one the idea of a domesticated animal. A communication was read from Dr. H. Schlegel, F.M.Z.S., containing the following list of the most remarkable species of Mammals and Birds collected by Messrs. Fr. Pollen and D. C. van Dam in Madagascar, and about to be described in a work entitled ' Re-cherches sur la Faune de Madagascar et de ses dependances, par M M . H. Schlegel et Fr. Pollen' :- MAMMALS. L E M U R MACACO (male). Lemur leucomystax, Bartlett (female). See Schlegel, Contrib. in Ned. Tydschrift voor Dierkunde, iii. p. 74. Only observed on the north-west coast of Madagascar. A series of both sexes, young and adult ones, obtained. L E M U R MAYOTTENSIS, Schlegel, Contrib. I. c. Only observed in the Isle of Mayotte. L E M U R CATTA. Obtained from St. Augustin's Bay. This species is restricted to the southern part of Madagascar. H A P A L E M U R GRISEUS sive OLIVACEUS, Geoffroy. A series obtained at the north-west coast. L E P I L E M U R M U S T E L I N U S , Geoffroy. Several specimens obtained at the north-west coast. C H E I R O G A L E U S FURCIFER, Gervais. A series obtained at the north-west coast. M I C R O C E B U S coauERELi, Pollen (nov. spec). North-west coast. V I V E R R A SCHLEGELII, Pollen ; Schlegel, Contrib. I. c. Mayotte and north-west coast of Madagascar. GALIDICTIS STRIATA, Geoffroy. Eastern coast, collected by Mr. Lantz. C R Y P T O P R O C T A F E R O X , Bennett. North-west coast of Madagascar. A very old male obtained. This is the true Fossa of the inhabitants of this coast, the Viverrar being comprised by them under the name of ' Sabady.' This form is a modification of the genus Felis. Body and skull more elongated; feet shorter; claws half retractile ; grinders in the upper jaw exactly as in the Cats; in the under jaw one grinder more (sc. 4), a circumstance sometimes occurring also in Cats (one of our skulls of Felis tigrina presenting at the left side of the under jaw a fourth, although very small, posterior grinder). P T E R O P U S E D W A R D S I I . Madagascar and Mayotte. P T E R O P U S D U P R E A N U S , n. sp., Pollen. Allied to P. stramineus |