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Show 194 PROF. NEWTON ON AN ENGRAVING OF THE GEANT. [Feb. 18, Paraguay is well known to us from the writings of Azara and Rengger; but no one seems to have distinguished the Paraguayan animal from Tapir from Paraguay. the Brazilian. It will be interesting to see whether the skull and bones present any corresponding points of difference. 3. A female Reddish Macaque (Macacus rufescens), purchased January 20th, of Mr. W . Jamrach, and apparently exactly agreeing with the previously received specimen of this Monkey which was noticed and figured in m y report for February 1872 (see P.Z.S. 1872, p. 495, pl. xxiv.). Mr. Jamrach informs m e that this specimen is believed to have been brought to Calcutta (where he purchased it) from Batavia. But unfortunately this does not bring us much nearer its true patria. 4. A n African Bat, presented by Mr. W . Jamrach on the same day in a semitorpid condition, appears to be referable to the Taphozous nudiventer of Riippell, Atlas, pl. 27, p. 70. 5. T w o Fire-backed Pheasants, received in exchange Jan. 29, belong to the Bornean form Euplocamus pyronotus. Professor Newton, F.R.S., V.P., exhibited an old copper-plate engraving, and remarked as follows:- " Not long since, Mr. Dresser was so good as to give m e the print I now produce representing certain birds. I was at once struck with the strong likeness possessed by the principal figure (named ** Auis Indica ') in it to that given by Leguat, in his * Voyages et Avantures' |