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Grūs Regulorum, Licht, 



Hab. in Africa Meridionali. 



It is probable that this latter species has been figured by Petiver 

 and by Kolbe; but their representations are by no raeans sufficiently 

 defiued to authorize a positive reference to them, 



Mr. Gray took occasion to remark that the oval form of the 

 nostrils in the crovoned Cranes, added to other distinguishing cha- 

 racters vvhich have frequently been pointed out, might be regarded 

 as indicating a generic difference betvveen them and the Demoiselle 

 and Stanley Cranes, in vvhich the nostrils have the lengthened form 

 usual in the genus Grūs, a genus from which they scarcely difFer 

 except in the comparative shortness of their bill. For the group 

 including the croivned Cranes the name of Balearica might, he 

 thought, be retained ; and that of Anthropo'ides be approprialed to 

 the one comprehending Anth. Virgo, Vieill., and Aiūh. paradisceus, 

 Bechst. 



A collection of crania and skins of Mammalia from Nepal, pre- 

 sented to the Society by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z. S., 

 was exhibited. It contained škulis of the Buansu, Canis primcettus , 

 Hodgs., remarkable for the absence of a second tubercular molar 

 tooth in the lovver javv, as described in a communication by the 

 donor read at the Meeting on September 24th, (see page 111); of 

 the Thibetan Mastiff", and of the Pariah Dog : of the Indian Jackal 

 and of the Indian Fox, both of which are regarded by Mr. Hodgsoa 

 as belonging to species hitherto undescribed, the molar teeth of the 

 latter having in their acute tubercles mucli of an insectivorous cha- 

 racter : and of the Felis Nepalensis, Vig. & Horsf. 



Among the skins were those of a Sciuropterus, F. Cuv,, as large 

 as Sci.nitidus, Ej., and apparently nevv to science: of a Scmrus, 

 Linn., also apparently new : and of a Nerpestes, UI., which Mr. 

 Hodgson at present regards as a small variety of the commoa In- 

 dian Ichneumon, Herpestes griseus, Desm. 



At the request of the Chairman, Mr. Gould exhibited a specimen 

 of a Toucan, hitherto undescribed, and vvhich he had recently ac- 

 quired. It is nearly related to Pteroglossus Aracari, UI., and to Pter. 

 regalis, Licht. ; and Mr. Gould pointed out the characters vvhich 

 distinguish it from those and other species. He proposed for it the 

 name of 



Pteroglossus castanotis. Pter. suprci olivaceo-viridis, sub- 

 tus sulphureus ; capite gutturegue nigris ; regione paroticdjemo- 

 ribusgue saturate castaneis ; uropygio, interscapulio, abdominis' 

 guejascid latd coccineis ; tedricibus cauda; inferioribus sordide 

 fiavis; remigibus brunneis. 

 Long. tot. 174- unc; rostri, a rietu ad apicem, 5; alce, b'^j 

 cauda, 1^; tarsi, I4, 

 Hab. in Brasilia. 



The beak is depressed, of a deep straw yellovv, with a broad tri- 

 angular mark of black along its culmen for two thirds of its length, 

 and a nearly similar mark of black on each side ; its edges are 



