Miscellaneous, 441 the more shallow canal leading to it. In the Dinornis, the breadth and depth of the condyles are equal ; the outer condyle is the broad-est, the inner one is the most prominent ; their articular surfaces are so continuous as to leave no space answering to the intercondy-loid space in the Aptornis, Notornis, &c. The bridge is situated nearer the inner side of the bone, is subtransverse, rather narrow, with a widely elliptical lower outlet opening above the inner condyle. The Gastornis was a bird of the size of the Ostrich, but with more bulky proportions, and in that respect more resembling the Dinornis : it appears to have had nearer affinities with the wading order, and therein, perhaps, to the Rallidce ; but the modifications of its tibia indicate a genus of birds distinct from all previously known genera. *• Description of some Mammalian Fossils from the Red Crag of Suffolk." By Prof. Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S. The fossils described in this paper were referred by the author to the following genera and species : — Rhirioceros, a species nearly allied to, if not identical with, Rh. Schleiermacheri, Kaup ; from crag-pits at Wolverston, Sutton, and Felixstow, Suffolk. Tapirus priscuSy Kaup ; from Sutton. Sus pal^ochcerus, Kaup ; from Sutton. Sus antiquus, Kaup ; from Ramsholt, Suffolk. Equus : two species, one appa-rently Bq. plicidens, Owen ; from Bawdsey, Suffolk. Cervus dicra-nocerus, Kaup ; from Ipswich and Sutton. Cervus megaceros, from Felixstow. Ursus, sp. indet., less than Ur. spelaus. Canis, appa-rently C. Lupus. Felix pardo'ldes, Owen; from Newbourn, Suffolk. Mastodon longirostris, Kaup ; from Sutton, Felixstow, and Ipswich. Ziphius longirostris, Cuv. {Dioplodon Becanii, Gervais) ; Hoplocetus crassidens, Gervais; Balcenodon affinis, Bal. definita, Bal. gibbosa, Bal. emarginata, Owen; and remains of species of Delphinus, of the size of the Grampus. The conclusion which the author deduced from the large propor-tion of miocene forms of mammalia, and the very great numerical superiority of individual fossil specimens from the Red Crag refer-able to miocene species, and from the admixture of these fossils with a few eocene and pleistocene species, was that the Red Crag was the debris of former tertiary strata of different periods, and, in a great proportion, of the miocene period. MISCELLANEOUS. The British Museum — its Catalogues and accessions in Zoology, *' It is with great pleasure," said the Prince Charles Bonaparte, in presenting the Academy of Sciences of Paris with a copy of Dr. Gray's recent * Catalogue of the Tortoises/ " it is with great pleasure that I lay before you this new work on the Chelonian Reptiles, because it is a true model of what the catalogues of great museums ought to be, taking the science at its standing point, and furnishing figures of new or doubtful species and of such as have been ill represented. In one word, it is a work worthy of its author, of the national establish-
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