42(1 Mr. R. II. Whiteliouse on Ptilocercus lowi continentis, subsp. n. Very similar to true JBornean lowi, but distinguished by the following characters : — Colour above drab-grey, that of lowi, so far as can be seen on rather faded specimens, more tinged with isabella. Underside soiled creamy, fairly sharply defined from the grey sides. Dark eye-mark more extended anteriorly, reaching nearly to the tip of the muzzle. Hands pale buffy above, as in lowi, but feet with the metatarsals dark brown, contrasting markedly with the buffy toes. Fine hairs of " naked " part of tail shorter and more sparsely scattered than in lowi ; proximal half-inch of the plume black, remainder white. Skull of about the same length as in lowi, but the muzzle and palate markedly narrower ; the breadth of the muzzle above i 2 is 6'0 mm. in two adult lowi, 5"1 in the type of continentis ; distance between outer corners of m 2 12*1 mm. in lowi, 11 in continentis. Dimensions of the type (measured in the flesh) : — Head and body 133 mm. ; tail 167; hind foot 26'5 ; ear 17. Skull: condylo-basal length 37"3; greatest breadth 22'5 ; interorbital breadth 8 -5 ; brain-case breadth 15; palatal length 17'7; length of upper tooth-series 17"6. Hab. 10 miles from Kuala Lumpur, Selangor. Type. Adult male. B.M. no. 10. 4. 17. 1. Presented by the Selangor Museum. Obtained 22nd December, 1903, by a Museum collector. " Caught in a nest made of leaves and fibre in a tunnel 2 feet lon^ in a hollow branch of a tree/' LX1II. — Some Remarks on the Teleostean Caudal Fin. By Richard H. Whitehouse, M.Sc, University of Birmingham. In a recent number * of this journal Mr. C. Tate Regan contributed an interesting paper on the caudal fin of some Teleostean fishes, and in the course of his remarks he refers to a recent paper of minef which gave a summary of some-what extensive observations on caudal fins in fishes. Mr. Re-gan says "the caudal fin skeleton of the Clupeidse differs * April 1910, p. 354. t Proc. Royal Soe. B. lxxxii. p. 139.
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