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Show 144 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. [Apr. 3, of this I will not be so positive as I am on the two other points, I have never heard of Bos frontalis being found even in a semi-domesticated state in Sylhet. Having lived for years in surrounding districts and knowing many persons who have lived in the district, I think indeed it is more than possible I should have heard if this animal is found in Sylhet or not." Mr. Sclater observed that though he had always wondered at the exceeding tameness of captured specimens of this supposed Wild Ox, the fact that the Gayal was nowhere found in a wild state was quite new to him, and that, as regards the geographical distribution of this and Bos gaurus, he was quite willing to assent to M r . Sarbo's corrections of his statements. Mr. Sclater called attention to the skin of a brown Crow (Corvus), which had been sent to him for examination hy M r. Albert A. C. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., of the Zoological and Acclimatization Society of Melborne. Mr. Le Souef had written of it as follows :- " It was shot in Riverina. The gentleman who killed it sent m e a similar bird alive about two years ago; and it lived in confinement about a year. O n its death I showed it to Prof. M c C o y of the Melbourne University ; and that gentleman, after a careful examination, pronounced it an albino specimen of the C o m m o n Crow (Corvus australis). Its eyes, however, were brown like the colour of the feathers, in fact darker. M y up-country friend moreover informs m e that he has frequently seen these brown Crows in pairs, and has now sent m e down the present skin." Mr. Sclater said that he was inclined to agree with Prof. McCoy that the bird in question was only a variety in plumage of Corvus australis; and remarked that such varieties, although rare in a natural state, were by no means unknown, as witness the two creamy-coloured specimens of Polyborus brasiliensis formerly living in the Society's Gardens l. The following papers were read:- 1. On a Collection of Indian Lepidoptera received from Lieut.-Colonel Charles Swinhoe ; with numerous Notes by the Collector. By A R T H U R G. BUTLER, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Eeceived March 21, 1883.] (Plate XXIV.) During the year 1882 I received from Col. Swinhoe (then resident at M h o w ) several boxes of Lepidoptera collected by {.him and his assistants, chiefly at Kurrachee, Solun, and M h o w , between the vears 1879 and 1882. As usual with large series from an extended "area, ' See P. Z. S. 1876, p. 333, et 1878, p. 232. |