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Show 1880.] MR. G. E. DOBSON ON THE HEAD OF A PARTRIDGE. 539 the Logar valley between Kabul and Guzni, and presented to the Society by Major W . E. Money. Major Money has kindly favoured m e with the subjoined notes upon this interesting animal, which is new to the Society's Collection : - " I had at first a pair of these Jerboas : they were caught at His-sarak, in the Logar valley, between Kabul and Guzni, about 40 miles from Kabul. When I first caught them, in May last, though the weather was not then very cold, I once or twice found them in the morning quite stiff from the cold, and had to revive them by putting the box in the sun. I took to filling their box with cotton-wool; but this did not answer, as I found their legs got tightly entangled in it; so I used sheep's wool chopped short, and soon found that the little captives appreciated a comfortable berth. " The Jerboa lives in holes in the ground at all seasons, as far as I could ascertain. It is not often seen in the day, feeds at night on all kinds of grain, does not appear to require water in its natural state: but in the excessive heat on the march from Kabul (up to 115° in tents) I believe that without it m y specimens would have died; for they would drink from a tea-spoon at all times. " The second, which was a young male, was well and healthy, but could not stand the heat, and died at Peshawur when all its worst troubles were over. I had been told that I should never succeed in landing them in England; and had they not shared my umbrella, I think this would have been the case. I fed them on green wheat, green rice, indian corn, lucerne, raw potatoes and gram and other grain and dry biscuit." Mr. Sclater laid upon the table a skin of the beautiful Guinea-fowl from Zanzibar lately described by Mr. Bartlett (P.Z.S. 1877, p. 652, pl. Ixv.) as Numida ellioti, of which the Society had recently received several living examples. Dr. Cabanis, to whom the skin in question had been forwarded for comparison, had declared it to be the same as Numida pucherani, Hartlaub (J. F. O. 1860, p. 341) ; and Mr. Sclater was inclined to agree with this view. It was evident that Mr. Bartlett had been misled by the inaccurate colouring of the head given in Mr. Elliot's figure of Numida pucherani (Monogr. Phasian. vol. ii. pl. xlvi.), in which the whole side of the head is coloured blue instead of red, as accurately represented in M r . Bartlett's figure. Mr. G. E. Dobson exhibited the head of a Partridge shot by Mr. C. W . Griffith at Ashley, near Stockbridge, in which excessive growth of the intermaxillary bones had caused the upper mandible to project nearly half its entire length beyond the lower. The palatine bones were normal; and no trace of previous injury to the beak, which might account for the excessive growth, could be traced. 36* |