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serving that the re-discovery of an old species was at all times more 

 gratifying to him, and, he considered, more beneficial to the science 

 of zoology, than the original description of twenty that were new ; 

 because, whilst it equally added an authentic species to the substan- 

 tive amount of our knowledge, it had the further merit of dispelling 

 the many doubts and surmises which unavoidably obscured the sub- 

 ject. Mr. Ogilby entered at some length into the identification of 

 these two interesting species, referring to the scanty materials afforded 

 by the original descriptions of Buflfon and Daubenton, and pointing 

 out the various other Ruminants with which subsequent naturalists 

 had confounded them ; at the same time reserving his more detailed 

 demonstration of this subject, and his descriptions of the animals 

 themselves, for the monograph which he has been long preparing for 

 the Transactions of the Society. Among other errors, he pointed 

 out that the Koba of Pennant {A . Senegalensis) was the Caama ; 

 and that the Korrigum of Denham and Clapperton's Travels, identi- 

 fied with A. Senegalensis by Mr. Children and Colonel Smith, was a 

 very distinct animal from the Koha, and even belonged to a different 

 natural genus. It has horns in the female sex and lachrymal si- 

 nuses, both of which characters are absent in the Koba : he there- 

 fore proposed to distinguish the Bornou animal by the specific name 

 oi A. Korrigum. The same observation applies to the two species 

 which Colonel H. Smith has described under the names of A. Ade- 

 nota and A. Forfex, and which he identified with the Kob and Gam- 

 bian Antelope respectively; both these animals had lachrymal sinuses, 

 w^hereas, both BufFon and the more accurate Daubenton, expressly 

 declare that the Kob is without this character. The animals in the 

 Gardens, however, corresponded in all respects with the original de- 

 scriptions; their comparative size, their colour, their habitat, their 

 zoological characters, as far as they were reported, and, in the case 

 of the Koba, even the name, were identical ; and it therefore gave 

 him peculiar satisfaction to be able to congratulate the Society on 

 the possession of two of the rarest and most interesting Antelopes 

 ever brought together. He observed, in conclusion, that the female 

 of the Kob had been observed by him six or eight months ago in 

 the Surrey Zoological Gardens, but that he had only recognised its 

 identity with Buflfon's animal on the arrival of the fine male speci- 

 men at present belonging to the Society. 



Mr. Ogilby afterwards exhibited the skin of a Fox from the Hima- 

 layan mountains, which he has described in the Zoological Part of 

 Mr, Royle's "Flora Himalaica," under the name of Canis Himalaicus . 

 This animal, of which Mr. Ogilby stated that he had examined three 

 skins, two belonging to the Zoological Society, and one procured by 

 Mr. Royle at Mussooree, (the two former in their summer, the latter 

 in its winter dress,) appears to be rare in Nepaul, since Mr. Hodg- 

 son has never been able to procure a specimen, but contents himself 

 with indicating its existence (see Catalogue of Mammalia of Nepaul) ; 

 it is not uncommon, however, in the Doon, in Kumaon, and the more 

 western and elevated parts of the Mountains, w^here it is called the 

 hill Fox by the Europeans, and greatly admired for the beauty of its 

 form, and the brilliancy and variety of its colours. The w hole length 



