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Show 1879.] ON THE FEMALE OF CERIORNIS BLYTHII. 457 the Cynocephali alone is any thing of this kind seen, and lower of these two sulci only (n, n). The anterior transverse (parietal) fissure (d, d) commences externally between the two small sulci just described (e, e and n, n). After running forward and upward it bends, turning slightly backwards to the middle line, where it is continued downwards upon the median surface of the hemisphere for a short distance, as in species described by Gratiolet. The three-way convolution of the frontal lobe (///) resembles that in the Cynocephali-the Semnopitheci, 3Iacaci, and Cercopi-theci almost or entirely lacking its posterior limb, which is well represented in the Geladas and Baboons. Small independent sulci are more numerous than in Macacus and Cercopithecus-about as many as in the Cynocephali, with which the Gelada most agrees in size. Correlation of the facts above recorded makes me place Gelada along with Cercopithecus and Cynocephalus away from Macacus. Its affinities with Cercopithecus seem to me more intimate than with Cynocephalus, to which genus it most certainly does not belong. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXVIII. Brain of Gelada rueppelli, natural size. Fig. 1. Right hemisphere, outer aspect. 2. „ ,, inner aspect. 3. ,, „ superior aspect. 4. „ „ inferior aspect. 4. Notes on and Description of the Female of Ceriornis blythii, Jerdon. By Lieut.-Col. H. H. G O D W I N - A U S T E N , F.Z.S. [Received M a y 15,1879.] (Plate XXXIX.) I have much pleasure in exhibiting the female of the rare Ceriornis blythii, which up to the present time was unknown1. For the acquisition of this bird, and our further knowledge of the species, I am indebted to Capt. W . Brydon, of the 42nd Assam Light Infantry, who obtained several of this species in the Aughami Naga hills. He tried very hard to bring two of them to England alive, 1 Since this paper was read we have received vol. vii. No. 6, of ' Stray Feathers.' At p. 472 is a paper by Mr. A. 0. H u m e on this species, which leaves the true plumage of the female still in some state of uncertainty. Either the bird described by him is a female in a younger stage of plumage, or Capt. Brydon and Lieut. Macgregor, w h o have kept these birds in captivity, are mistaken as to the female putting on the red colour about the neck and thus assimilating the plumage of the male to this extent.-H. H. G.-A. |