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December 10, 1833. 



William Yarrell, Esq., in the Cliair. 



Specjmens were exhibited of Nyctinomus acetabulosus, GeofF. j an 

 Ibis, apparently Ibis religiosa, Cuv. ; and a Chanifeleon, Ckamceleo 

 verrucosus, Cuv. They were presented to the Society by Charles 

 Telfair, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z, S., by whom they were obtained from 

 Madagascar. 



Colonel Sykes placed on the table his speciraen of the ivild Dog 

 of Dukhun, Canis Dukhunensis, Sykes, for the purpose of comparing 

 it with a skin of the viild Dog of Nepal, Canis primcBvus, Hodgs., 

 recently presented to the Society by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Corr. 

 Merab. Z. S. He shovved that the two Dogs are perfectly similar 

 in their general form, and in the form of the cranium ; and that in 

 his specimen, equally with that of Mr. Hodgson, the hinder tuber- 

 cular tooth of the lower jaw is vvanting. The oniy differences re- 

 markable between the two specimens is in the quality and colour 

 of the fur, that of the Dukhun Dog being paler and less dense than 

 that of the individua! frora Nepal. These differences, depending 

 probably on climate and individual peculiarity, cannot be regarded 

 as sufficient to indicate a distinction between the two races. Iden- 

 tical as they are in form and habits, Col. Sykes considers them as 

 belonging to one species. A short notice of the Dukhun Dog, com- 

 municated by him to the Conimittee of Science and Correspondence, 

 was published in its ' Proceedings,' Part I. p. 100 ; and a detailed 

 account of it, read by him before the Royal Asiatic Society, has 

 just appeared in the Transactions of that body. 



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

 Eurylaimi, Horsf., in illustration of a paper " On an undescribed 

 Species" of that genus, vvhich he characterized as 



EuRYLAiMus LUNATUS. Eur. copite cristato ; cristd genisque 

 brunneis ;J'ascid supraciliari nigrd ; gula cinerascente ; colio, in- 

 terscapulio, pectore, abdotninegue ccerulescenti-cinereis ; tergo 

 uropygioque castaneis ; parauchenio lund albd notato ; scapula- 

 ribus nigris ; alis lazuUnis, ad apicem Jhscid latd nigrd notatis, 

 remigibus prioribus guatuor albo apiculatis acutis, secundariis ab- 

 ruptis tribus interioribus castaneis ; caudd nigrd, rectricibus tri- 

 hus ezternis apices versus albis. 

 Foem. Lunuld ad colli latera nnlld. 



Long, tot. 6-į- unc; rostri, a rietu ad apicem, 4; rostriaA basin 

 lat. -I-; long. alcB, 3į; caudeB, 2; tarsi, -§-. 



Hab. apud Rangoon. 

 No. XII. Pboceedings of the Zoological Society. 



