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Show glad of your opinion. In the same parcel I enclose a Lake Otter skin." 192 MR. W. E. DE WINTON ox • [Mar. 3, Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., exhibited the mounted skin of the Greater Bird of Paradise (Paradisea apoda) that had lately died in the Society' Gardens. Mr. J. L. Bonhote, F.Z.S., exhibited a photograph of two tame Elephants in Ceylon accompanied by a baby one, which latter showed a considerable amount of hair, especially on the forehead. One of the old Elephants in the photograph, presumably the mother, also showed a certain amount of hair. With reference to a recent paper by Col. C. E. Stewart, dealing with the real home of the Tiger, Mr. J. L. Bonhote said that he had asked a friend of his, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge, as to whether there was a word for the tiger in Sanskrit; the reply was in the affirmative, the word being vyaghra (or in the Pali form, vyciggho). This note was not brought forward against the fact of the original home of the tiger being in the north, but to support Mr. Thomas's contention that it had not spread south so recently as Col. Stewart was inclined to believe. Professor F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a Holothurian of the genus Actinopyga from shallow water off' Zanzibar, in which there was not only an oral extremity with tentacles, as in the Cucumaria planei described some ten years since by Prof. Ludwig, but also an anal extremity ; these additions (whether the result of gemmation or of fission cannot at present be said) do not occur in the same radius of the Holothurian. The following papers were read :- 1. On a new Species of Pigmy Antelope of the Genus Neotragus from the Cameroons District^ W . Africa. By W . E. d e W i n t o n , F.Z.S. [Received March 3, 1903.J (Plate XIX. & Text-fig. 29.) In a collection lately received from Mr. G. L. Bates from the Cameroons are two specimens, male and female, of a new form of Pigmy Antelope, adding a second species to the genus Neotragus. I propose to name this very interesting new form in honour of the collector, who has added so much to our knowledge of the fauna of the Cameroons country. |