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extend in the specimen described so far back as in the former spe- 

 cies. The hairs of the whole body are very short in comparison, 

 and much stiffer and more closely set. The animed is considerably 

 larger, as far as can be ascertained, and the tail, for a stuiFed speci- 

 men, shorter in proportion." 



Specimens of both species were upon the table, and Mr. Bell ex- 

 hibited drawings, showing the plantigrade character of the foot, and 

 some of the intemal organs. 



Mr. Gould exhibited a small collection of rare European birds 

 ■which had just been received by himfrom M. Temminck of Leyden. 

 Among them were examples of Grūs leucogeranus, Strix ascala- 

 phus, Limosa Terek, Pyrrhula rosea, Emberiza Lesbia, Larus Audouinn, 

 and a rare species of Harrier which had been killed on the banks of 

 the Rhine ; this, Mr. Gould obsened, was the Circus pallidus lately 

 characterized by Col. Sykes in his Catalogue of the Birds observed 

 by him in the Dukhun, and published in the second part of the 

 Proceedings (1832.). 



