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Show 270 MESSRS. DANFORD AND ALSTON ON [Mar. 20, would doubtless belong) to be compared with skulls of R. sumatrensis. Mr. Manson had stated that the front horn of his specimen was 8| inches high, the second merely a stud between the eyes. Mr. Sclater remarked that this was the thirdl recorded occurrence of a Two-horned Rhinoceros north of the Bay of Bengal. Mr. Sclater also called attention to the fact that Mr. W . Jamrach had just imported a young living specimen of the Rhinoceros of the Bengal Sunderbans, which was either Rhinoceros sondaicus or a very closely allied form2. Mr. Sclater had lately examined this animal, which was of the female sex, and measured about 3 feet in height. At this time of life there was certainly no appearance of a horn on the nose. Mr. Sclater exhibited a small living Amphisbaenian (Planus cinereus) which had been accidentally brought to England in the roots of a hot-house plant from Port St. Mary, Spain, and had been presented to the Society by John Goddard, Esq., Elmer Lodge, Beckenham. The following papers were read:- 1. On the Mammals of Asia Minor. By CHARLES G. DANF O R D , F.Z.S., and E D W A R D R. A L S T O N , F.L.S., F.Z.S. [Eeceived February 20, 1877.] (Plate XXXI.) The general lack of information as to the fauna of Asia Minor seems to render an apology unnecessary for the introduction of the following very imperfect list of the mammals known to inhabit that country. In drawing up this catalogue, reference has been made to various notes which have appeared in our • Proceedings'3, which relate chiefly to the districts of Trebizond and Erzeroom, and also to a few notices of animals in various books of travels4, especially in those of Mr. Ainsworth and M . Tchihatcheff. To these are added the animals either observed by Danford, or ascertained by him to occur in the country. 1 One being that of the specimen of B. lasiotis now in the Gardens, and the second that recorded P. Z. S. 1875, p. 566. 2 See P. Z. S. 1876, p. 751. 3 E. T. Bennett, " Observations on several Mammalia from Trebizond and Erzeroum," P. Z. S. 1835, pp. 89, 90. E. D. Dickson and H. J. Boss, " Notes accompanying a Collection of Birds (&c.) from Erzeroom," P. Z. S.. 1839, pp. 119-123. 0. G. Danford, " Notes on the Wild Goat (Capra ceaaarus Gm.)," P. Z. S. 1875, pp. 458-468. y 4 Of these we may mention:-Ainsworth, ' Besearches in Assyria, Babylonia, andOhaldea' (London, 1838); Spratt and Forbes, 'Travels in Lycia' (Lond. 1847); Baker, ' Lares and Penates' (Lond. 1853); Curzon, • Armenia' (Lond. 1854); Tchihatcheff, 'Asie Mineure' (Paris, 1856); and Kotschv, ' Beise in d. Cilicischen Taurus' (Gotha, 1858). |