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Show 238 ON SPECIMENS OF FOSSIL BONES FROM CYPRUS. [Apr. 15, ears blackish, with a conspicuous patch of white hairs in the lower part of the conch; sides of face grizzled like the back, but more greenish ; nose blackish, chin whitish ; limbs and tail black ; belly and underparts pale whitish grey: whole length of body about 13 in.; tail 17 in. Hab. Forests of Latuka Mountains, Northern Uganda. Obs. Closely allied to C. leucampyx of West Africa, but distinguished by its white ear-patches, blacker head, greyer back, and much paler colour beneath. [P.S. July 1st.-Heir Oscar Neumann, who has examined this Monkey, is of opinion that it is nearly allied to, if not identical with, Cercopithecus stuhlmanni of Matschie (Sitzsb. Ges. naturf. Fr. Berlin, 1893, p. 225). This is possibly the case, but the description does not quite agree with our specimen.] 2. A Panda (^Elurus fulgens), from Northern India, obtained by purchase on March 4th. This scarce animal, which is the third specimen received by the Society, was in a weak state on arrival and unfortunately did not live long. 3. Another collection of ten Indian Birds, presented by Mr. E. W . Harper, F.Z.S., all belonging to species new to the Collection. Amongst them the Stork-billed Kingfisher (Pelargopsis gurial) and the Mountain-Thrush (Oreocincla dauma) are particularly interesting. Prof. Bell, F.Z.S., exhibited two arms of an injured Starfish of the genus Luidia, from the west coast of Ireland, which had undergone repair at their free ends. These regenerated parts were unlike the rest of the arm, and had a striking though not exact resemblance to the free ends of the arms of an Astropecten. Dr. Forsyth Major, F.Z.S., exhibited some selected specimens from a collection of fossil bones recently received by the Natural History Museum from Cyprus, where they had been discovered in caves by Miss Dorothy M . A. Bate, who started last year for that island with the express purpose of discovering and exploring ossiferous caverns. The remains proved to be those of a pigmy Hippopotamus, about half the size of a middle-sized Hippopotamus amphibius, and could not be distinguished from Cuvier's " Petit Hippopotame fossile" (H. minutus Blainv.), which was smaller than the so-called " H. minutus" of Malta and otherwise different. Cuvier's description had been based on scanty remains in the Paris Museum and from private collections in Bordeaux and Brussels, all of them without any record of their origin, but which had ultimately (Oss. Foss. 4th ed. ii. p. 490, 1834) been supposed to come from a place, never identified before nor after, between Dax and Tartas in the South of France. Dr. Forsyth Major now suggested that the fossils described by Cuvier were, in reality, from Cyprus also. |