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Show 544 LETTER FROM DR. J. ANDERSON. [June 23, of the district; but two other Cracina (Nothocrax urumutum and Mitua tuberosa) are likewise met with. The only Penelope we have seen from the Upper Amazon is P. boliviana; but P. sclateri is probably from the Bolivian branches of the same river. The widely spread Pipile cumanensis also occurs in more than one locality in this region. The Ortalida? are 0. guttata and 0. caracco. 8. Wood-region of South-east Brazil. In this and the following district, which are closely connected, and, as we believe, altogether divided from the great Amazonian forest-region by intervening campos, we meet with an entirely new set of Cracida. In the wood-region of Brazil, which we are now considering, Crax carunculata is the sole representative of the Cracina. Three species of Penelope occur-P. jacucaca, P. jacupeba, and P. superciliaris. Pipile is represented by P. jacutinga-very distinct from the two Amazonian species. Of Ortalida two species, at least, are met with : -0. albiventris, in the vicinity of Bahia; and tbe nearly allied 0. squamata, probably in one of the more southern provinces. Of 0. ruficeps, attributed to this district, we do not know the exact locality. 9. Paraguay and adjoining wood-region of the interior of Brazil, situate on the Upper Paraguay and Parana. In this district Crax sclateri, Penelope obscura, and Ortalida canicollis represent their respective genera; but Penelope ochrogaster, discovered by Natterer near Cuyaba, probably also belongs to it. June 23, 18/0. Professor Flower, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The following extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Dr. John Anderson, C.M.Z.S., dated Indian Museum, Calcutta, M a y 4th, 1870:- "When I wrote to you about the Dolphin of the Irawady*, and mentioned Globiocephalus, I had not examined the specimen attentively, and had been misled by Blyth's identification of two almost similar specimens in this museum. But on going into the subject I found that he had confounded two very distinct forms, and had regarded as the young of his Globiocephalus indicus a small full-grown Dolphin (the Phoceena brevii'ostris of Owen). I have written fully on this subject in m y 'Mammals of Yunan.'" Mr. Howard Saunders, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon some nestlings of the Booted Eagle (Aquila pennata) from Southern Spain. Dr. Murie read a memoir on the anatomy of the Walrus (Tri- * See P. Z. S. antea p. 220. |
