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August 13, 1833. 



N, A. Vigors, Esq., in tlie Chair. 



A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by E. W. A. Drum- 

 niond Hay, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z. S., and dated Tangier, July 5, 

 1833 It referred to various animals which Mr. Drummond Hay 

 has obtained for the purpose of forwarding them to the Soc.ety s 

 Menagerie ; and adverted to others which he is m hopes ot pro- 



^'"Š'i^the subject otiheBalra ^IM, in the V^^r^\Ba^f^^^fM 

 Mr. Drummond Hay statės that this term, as well as A^«^«^^/"į 

 Targeea, (all signifying toiZi Cou,,) appears to be /ppl'ed by the 

 Arabs to Antilope Leucoryx. It is, hovvever poss.ble that the šame 

 name may be applied to large Ruminants of ^-frent speaes ; a - 

 though to any having the general appearance of an .f^itelope^tj 

 likelf that the Arabs would give the term, generic as it were, Gazai. 



The skins were exhibited of a Cfli/w««, and of the Co^oJ^ or 

 Mexkan Jackal, the latter being ^pparently the Pro^ne fFo^, 

 Canislatrans, Say. They were obtained m Mex.coby CapU n 

 Colouhoun, by whom they were presented o the Society ; as were 

 also the ho^ns, which were similarly exh,bited, of the Berenda, a 

 prong-horned Antelope. 



The stomach was exhibited of the Pekan or Fisher Marten, 

 Mustela Canadensh, Schreb. ; and Mr. Martm at the reąuest of 

 the Chairman, read his notes of the dissection of the animal. 



" Its length from the nose to the origin of the tail was 21 inches. 

 An immense deposition of fat loaded the cellular tissue, as well as 

 the omentum and intestines. , ^ . , ■ .u^ o«« 



«' The liver, likę that of the Mustela Fotna, was tr.partite, con- 

 Bisting of a large middle and two lateral lobes ; to wh.ch may be 

 added the lobis SpigeliL The middle lobe -as deeply cleft into 

 three portions, the ii|ht portion being the largest. In ^e fis.ure 

 betvveen this and the%ext portion was situated the gall-bladder, 

 globular, or nearly so, in shape, and fiUed w.th green bile. The^he- 

 ^atic dacts leading from the several lobes of the hver were as a ge 

 as crow-quill3 ; they united in a smgle trunk previously to joming 

 the cystic duot. which they did half way down its course. The 

 generil duct entered the duodenum 1 inch below the pi/lorus. 

 ^ .'The stomach was 5^ inches in length, and of a somewhat 

 elongated form, the cardiac portion being but little enlarged. 



" The omentum covered the whole of the mtestmes. 

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