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Show 1896.] DRAWINGS IN THE KNOWSLEY LIBRARY. 987 40. " Vicuna. From the living animal at Knowsley, October 26, 1844, by B. Waterhouse Hawkins." [Male and female Vicuna, Auchenla vicugna. See plate xlix. of ' Gleanings.'] 41. " Drawn from the living animals at Knowsley, September 1845, by B. Waterhouse Hawkins." [A pair of Onagers, Equus onager, apparently of the Indian form. See pl. liii. of ' Gleanings.'] 42. " Drawn from the living animals at Knowsley, June 13, 1844, by B. Waterhouse Hawkins. The foal born at Knowsley, May 23, 1844. "Male and foal still living, 1846." [Male, female, and foal of the Mountain Zebra, Equus montanus. Original of plate Ivi. of ' Gleanings.'] 43. " Colobus. From a dried skin marked Whitfield 8.1.43 by B. Waterhouse Hawkins at Knowsley Hall, Nov. 22nd, 1843." [Apparently Colobus polycomusJ] 44. "Drawn from the living animals at Knowsley, October 1845, by B. Waterhouse Hawkins." [A pair of Cheetahs, Cyncelurus jubatugj] 45. "Drawn from the living animals at Knowsley, October 4th, 1845, by B. Waterhouse Hawkins." [A pair of young Servals or of an allied species, possibly Fells servallna.~\ 46. " B. Waterhouse Hawkins, 1847." [A Long-eared Fox, Otocyon megalotls.~] 47. "B. W . H., Oct. 20, 1843. The specimen in Museum marked Bates, Belize river." [Derbian Opossum, Didelphys lanigera. This is no doubt taken from the type of B. derblana, Waterhouse, which was described from Lord Derby's specimeu : see Waterhouse, Nat. Hist. Mammals, i. p. 495.] 48. " Adult female (now lost), young still living. From the living animal at Knowsley, April 22nd, 1845, by B. Waterhouse Hawkins." [Two figures, mother and young, of the Philander Opossum, Bldelphys philander..] 49. " Drawn from the living animals at Knowsley, Jan. 16th, 1845, by B. Waterhouse Hawkins." [Three figures of the Patagonian Cavy, Bolichotls patagonlca.'] 50. " Drawn from the living animal at Knowsley by B. Water-house Hawkins, June 13th, 1845." [A Cavy, probably the Rock Cavy, Cavla rupestrlsi] 51. "In Museum at Knowsley, figured by B. Waterhouse Hawkins, Oct. 10th, 1843. Specimen in Museum marked |