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Ckiru i's probably identical with the Kernas of ^Elian, Mr. Hodgson 

 remarks, that if the latter animal is justly characterized as having a 

 white tail, and residing in woods, it mušt be distinct from the Chiru, 

 vvhich inhabits open plains exclusively, never frequenting either 

 mountains or vvoods; and in which, moreover, the tail on its outer 

 surface is always coloured likę the proximal part of the back. 



iN'Ir. Hodgson concludes his paper by a detailed description of 

 the skull and horns of the Chiru. The bony nticleus of the latter 

 has a large oval cavity, communicating by one ciean canal with the 

 frontai sinuses. A cavity also exists in tiie osseous core of the horns 

 of the Thdr Antelope. 



A "Description of the tuild Dog of Nepal," by B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq., Corr. Memb. Z, S., vvas read. Its local name is Būdnsū. It 

 is characterized as the 



Canis primovus. Can. dentibus molaribus in maxilld inferiore 

 uiringiie sex ; jįcdmis plantisgue pilosis; auribus erectis; supra 

 saturate rtibiginosus, infrajlavescens ; caudd insigniter comosd, 

 rectd, mediocri. 



The very remarkable peculiarity in the nuraber of the molar teeth 

 of the lovver javv, indicated in the specific character, has been veri- 

 fied by Mr. Hodgson on the examination of the crania of three adult, 

 two mature, and one young individual of the race. The deficieiit 

 number is occasioned by the absence of the second tubercular tooth. 

 Ali the other teeth exist in the ordinary number and positions. 



At the commencement of his paper, Mr. Hodgson remarks on the 

 uncertiiinty that prevails as to tlieprimitive stock of \.\\e familiar Dog, 

 and rejecting, vvith most modern zoologists, the claim of the Wolf, 

 the Jarkal, and the Fox to rank as its prototype, he also argues against 

 regarding as such the half-reclaimed Dingo of Australia. He thinks 

 that he has detected įhis original race in llie Budnsii of Nepal, 

 the eastern and vvestern limits of vvhose range appear to be the Sut- 

 lege and the Burhampootra, und vvhich seems to extend, with some 

 immaterial differences, into the Vindyia, the Ghauts, tlie Nilgiris, the 

 Casiah Hills, and in the chain passing brokenly from Mirzapore 

 through South Bahar and Orissa to the Coromandel Coast. 



Of this race, although so vvild as to be rarely seen, Mr. Hodgson 

 has succeeded in obtaining many individuals ; some of vvhich lived in 

 confinement many months, and even produced voung, having been 

 pregnant vvhen they reached him. He is consequently enabled to 

 describe not only the form and colours, but the manners also, vvhich 

 he does in great detail. The form he compares particularly with 

 that of the Indian Jackal and the Indian Fox, short notices of which 

 he gives as an Appendix, and comparative figures of which with the 

 Biidnsū he also forwards \vith his paper. The paper is also accom- 

 panied by comparative figures of the crania of these several species ; 

 and the description given of this important part of the animal structure 

 is also comparative. 



The Būansū preys by night as well as by day, and hunts in packs 

 of from six to ten individuals, maintaining the chase rather bv its 



