similar small differences. Neither the external characters nor the skull agree with L. rufescens. The following is a summarized list of the species above discussed: 1. Vulpes montanus. 2. Lutra, either L. vulgaris, var. or an allied species. 3. Mus, probably new, allied to M. Bactrianus. XVI.-On a supposed new Sheep from the Central Hills of Kelat.—By A. O. HUME. (Received 30th October; Read 7th November, 1877.) (With plate IV.) I received last year from Major Sandeman, C. S. I., Political Superintendent of Kelat, the head and horns of a sheep which he supposed to be the same as the oorial (Ovis cycloceros) and which had been obtained in the Hills above the Bolan pass. Directly I saw these horns I was struck with their greater length and slenderness, and their peculiar twist, and after comparing them with two specimens of O. Vignei, and numerous specimens of O. cycloceros, and the description of O. Gmelini, the head appears to me to belong to a hitherto undescribed species. In all these three species, as far as I can make out, each horn lies in one plane, whereas in the present species the horn twists out, in a capital S. fashion. There is in fact much the same difference between the horns of the present species and of O. cycloceros, that there is between those of O. Kareleni, and O. Hodgsoni. It seems to me not impossible that this species may be one at any rate of the wild stocks from which the domesticated breed originated. I propose to name this sheep OVIS BLANFORDI. after my friend Mr. W. T. Blanford, our well known Zoologist and Geologist. The following are the dimensions of the skull and horns with corresponding dimensions of those of a specimen of O. cycloceros, of apparently the same age, viz., about 8 years. In the case of each measurement, the dimension first given is that of O. Blanfordi. Length from the occipital crest to the end of the premaxil laries, 10.25, 10.85 from the anterior border of the foramen magnum,... 9.85, Breadth of palate between last molars,. 8.55 4.7, 4.5 2.6, 2.85 1.63, 1.69 of the fossa between the pterygoid processes, Greatest width of skull at posterior border of orbit, Length of horns along the curve, Circumference of ditto at base, Width from tip to tip of horns in a straight line, Greatest depth of horn at base, Width of forehead between orbits, The lower part of the forehead at the nasal suture and the whole of the frontals are more raised and convex than in either O. cycloceros, or 0. Vignei. The frontal ridge between the bases of the horns is less developed in O. Blanfordi, and in this latter the posterior convex margin of the bony palate is differently shaped, being more pointed and not nearly semicircular as in O. cycloceros. Although this was promised me, I have not, I regret to say, as yet received any skin of this sheep; but I should hope that the dimensions above given, accompanied by an accurate drawing, would suffice to enable other observers to identify this supposed new species. XVII. Catalogue of the recorded Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal, up to the end of 1876, compiled by HENRY F. BLANFORD, Meteorological Reporter to the Gevernment of India. The following list was drawn up with a view to ascertaining with greater accuracy than had previously been practicable, what is the distribution of cyclones at the different seasons of the year, and also what parts of the Bay are most liable to storms, in each season of the year. The general results arrived at on these heads have been announced in my lately published work "The Indian Meteorologist's Vade Mecum." The basis of the present catalogue has been furnished by the two lists. published by Dr. Buist in Vols. xii and xiv, of the Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, and that given by Mr. Piddington in the Sailor's Horn Book,* accompanying a chart of the storm tracks. To these I have added a considerable number of storms, notices of which I have gathered from other sources, and also those recorded in recent years in the Reports of the Meteorological Department. A few evident errors in Dr. Buist's catalogues (possibly arising from misprints) have been corrected, and attention has been drawn to some doubtful cases. The several authorities referred to are designated in the Catalogue by the following symbols: B. I. Buist's first catalogue. Trans. Bombay Geog. Soc. Vol. xii. App. A. ditto ditto ditto ditto B. II. ditto second ditto P. 1-XXV. PHB. AAR. 0. C. HID. G. & T. SGMA. MJ. L. PRS. G. & B. Piddington's Memoirs in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal. ditto Sailor's Horn Book of Storms. Asiatic Annual register. xiv. p. 19. Orme's History of the Military transactions in Hindostan. Horsburgh's Indian Directory. Taylor's Edit. 1874. Goldingham and Taylor. Madras Met. Register 1822-1843. Dr. Liebeg in the J. As. Soc. Bengal 1858. Proc. Royal Soc. London. Bengal Meteorological Reports. Gastrell and Blanford. Report on Calcutta Cyclone 1864. ditto ditto The Author from private notes. W. Rep. E. Rep. Auct. J. Eliot's ditto. Col. Thuillier in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal. Vol. xvii. p. I. * Also in Vol. xvi, part 2 of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. I 1737 Oct. II 1747 Oct. 7th A violent earthquake and furious PHB. p. 225. out of Madras roads by a hur-| C. p. 57. B. 1. III 1749 Apl. 13th A furious hurricane on the Coro O. mandel Coast. English camp C. p. 62. IV 1752 Oct. 31st Violent hurricane on the coast of V Madras. Rain that fell conti-¦ 1st VI 1763 Oct. 21st 0. C. p. 58. O. C. p. 58. C. p. 59. C. p. 60. in the roads. Storm not felt VII 1768 Oct. 29th Madras. Chatham Indiaman lost at Pondicherry. VIII 1782 Oct. 20th Madras. More than one hun- HID. IX 1787 May 19th & 20th. These estimates are in all probability greatly exaggerated, as will readily be believed by any person acquainted with the character of Indian statistics, even at the present day. The loss of life in the Backergunge cyclone of November 1876, was eventually found to be only about half the original estimate, although this latter was based on an actual enumeration of a certain number of villages, and had been framed with comparative caution. |