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nose, his iDtermaxilIary pouches, and hoIlow-cored horns, stands iti 

 some respects alone," and hence Mr. Hodgson is disposed to sug- 

 gest tlie regarding itas representing " a new subgenus, to be termed 

 Pantholops, the vulgar old name for the Unicorn." " Thehablts and 

 manners of the Chiru, his medial size, and his elegant vigorous form, 

 ally hiin niost to the Antilopine and Gazelline groups, and eąually 

 to both." 



Some extracts were read from a Letter addressed by the Presi- 

 dent, Lord Stanley, to the Secretary, giving an account of the 

 breeding oi sevetAl Birds in his Lordship's Menagerie at Knovvsley. 

 The red Grosbeak, Loxia Cardinalis, Linn., has a nešt of three young 

 which are nearly fledged ; and a single young one of the Toiuhee 

 Bunting, Emberiza erythrophthalvia , Gmei., has been hatched. The 

 Loxia cucuUata has this year, as lašt year also, made a nešt and laid 

 one egg ; and the American ydlovo Bird, Fringilla tristis, Linn., is 

 now sitting. 



The gosling of the Sandmch Island Goose, respecting which 

 a. notice from Lord Stanley was read on May 27, (p. 4'L) 

 *' is now fully as large as tlie parents, and nearly resembles them 

 in plumage ; the only differences being about the neck, which 

 is more indistinct in front and wants the full extension of the 

 black dovvn the nape, and the collar at the bottom just above the 

 breast is only faintly marked. The legs also are as yet of a dirty 

 greenish yellovv tinge. It is not pinioned, but has hitherto shovvn 

 no wish to use its wings. In fact they are the tamest of the tame, 

 Bcarcely vvill movė out of one's way if in the walks, and are con- 

 stantly coming into the building, even more familiarly than the 

 common Ducks." 



A specimen was exhibited of the Manis Tcmminchii, Smuts, 

 forming part of the collection made by Mr. Steedmah in Southern 

 Africa. Mr. Bennett stated that his object in calling the attention 

 of the Society to it was to point out the external characteristics of 

 a species knovvn to its original describer by its skeleton alone and 

 by a few detached scales. 



It may be thus characterized : 



Manis Temminckii, Smuts. Man.capitebreviore;corporelaHore, 

 squamis magnis, ll-seriatis ; cauda truncum longitudine suba- 

 quante, latitudine paullo minore, ad apicem subtruncatum vix an- 

 gustiore. 

 Hab. apud Latakoo.^ 



Long. tot. 25į unc. ; caudce, 12 j lat. dorsi, 85 caudce, prope 

 apicem, 5. 



The most remarkable features of this animal are the shortness of 

 the head ; the breadth of the body j and the breadth of the tail, 

 which is nearly equal to thatof the body, and continues throughout 

 the greater part of its extent of nearly the šame widtli, tapering 



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