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aud A. Chickara. The first of these is referable to the sub-genus 

 Cervicaprce of Desmarest, and is thus characterized ; " A. conii- 

 bus brevibus approximatis recurvis subulatis basi annulatis ultra 

 medium laavibus, corpore supra colore murino canest ente subtus 

 pallidiore, gula albente, cauda brevi attenuata subfloccosa, oculis 

 siuubus lacrymalibus." The second, which forms part of the 

 genus Tetracerus of Leacli, is also described ; " A. cornibus qua- 

 tuor, anterioribus erectis cylindricis brevibus abrupte acuminatis 

 basi subapproximatis, posterioribus subelongatis subulatis laevigatis 

 rectis paululum divergentibus." An imperfect description and 

 figure of this latter animal has been recentlj published in the 

 Histoire Naturelle des Mammiferes, on the authority of M. 

 Devaucel, which there are strong grounds for believing were made 

 up partly from memory, although M. D. asserts that he had in 

 his own possession the living animals. Figures of the male Goral, 

 and of the male and female Chickara, accompany General Hard- 

 wicke's paper. 



From the same pen we are also furnished with two other 

 articles; the one, a " Description of a new species of Tailed Bat, 

 (Taphosous, Geoif.) found in Calcutta," and the other a " De- 

 scription of the Buceros galeatus from Malacca." The character 

 of the new Taphosous^ T. longimanus, is thus given, '^ T. supra 

 ex fusco rufescens, subtus pallidior, trago piano capitulo securi- 

 formi obliquo margine crenulato, brachiis digitisque elongatis." 

 The Buceros galeatus is described as '' B. niger, abdomine albo, 

 rectricibus albido-flavescentibus fascia nigra, rostro conico subflavo; 

 galea subquadrato-convexa rubra fronte subflava." Figures of 

 eacH of these animals are given in illustration of their descriptions. 

 From the Extracts from the Minute Book given at the end of the 

 Volume, we learn that the Society has also been indebted to 

 General Hardwicke for a description of the Cervus t^ygargus^ an 

 account of the Ovis Argali, and descriptions of the Sciurus Pe- 

 tmirista, the Boa Fhrygia^ and the Buceros undulatus. 



Hitherto the Linnean Transactions have contained, with per- 

 haps one solitary exception, no paper of the character of that by 

 VV. S. MacLeay, Esq. entitled ♦' Anatomical Observations on the 

 natural Group of Tunicata, with the Descriptiou of three Species 



