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subius albis, cavdd latd, paululum decrescente,fulvd, pilis ha- 

 salibus ad apicem nigris, Pedibus anticis latis, pollice minuto ; 

 pedibus posticis penicilld latd ad marginėm externum indutis ; 

 plantis tuberculo oblongo parvo ad medium marginis externi, 

 tuberculo antico, et tuberculis duobus incegualibus intemė adpar- 

 tem posticam. 

 Hab. in India. 



SciuROPTERA TuRNBULLi. Sciur. vellere brevi, molli, nigres- 

 cente, pilis annulum albidum subterminalem exhibeniibus ; buccis, 

 mento, corporegue subtiis albis; regione circum-oculari, etmysta- 

 cibus nigris ; caudd angustd, decrescente, nigrescenti-fuscd, sub- 

 tiis pallidiore ; pedibus anticis parvulis, pollicibus minutis; pe- 

 dibus posticis externė vix Jimbriatis, plantis angustis sine tuber- 

 culis centralibus ad marginėm extemum, tuberculo attamen an- 

 teriori, necrmn duolms incequ£ilibus posticis ad marginėm in- 

 ternum. 



Long. IH unc; caudae, 8 unc. 



Hab, in India. 



A new species of Fox, nearly allied to Vulpes Bengalensis, but evi- 

 dently larger, Mr. Gray designated as Vulpes xanthura. In describing 

 this species, he remarked, that it had a large gland, covered with 

 rigid brown hair, on the upper part of tbe base of its tail, very di- 

 stinctly marked ; and that on looking at the tail of the several other 

 species of this genus, as V. Bengalensis, V. vulgaris, V.fulva, and 

 some others, a similar gland was easily recognisable, though it ap- 

 peared to have been hitherto overlooked. 



Mr. Ogilby afterwards characlerisedanew species of Gibbon {Hy- 

 lobates), which had been presented to the Society many years ago, 

 by the late General Hardwicke, and hitherto considered as the female 

 of the Hoolock. A specimen of the latter species had been presented 

 to the Society at the šame time, and from the šame locality ; but 

 their specific identity -vvas sufficiently disproved, not only by the fact 

 of both specimens being of the šame sex, and from our being perfectly 

 acąuainted vrith both sexes of the Hoolock, but likewise by the marked 

 difference of colour and extemal structure exhibited by the two ani- 

 mals, The greater height of the forehead and prominence of the nose 

 in the new species ■vvere pointed out as alone sufficient to distinguish 

 it from all the other Gibbons ; whilst its ashy-brown colour and large 

 black whiskers rendered it alraost impossible to confound it with 

 the Hoolock, which has fur of a shining black, and a pure "vvhite 

 band across the forehead. Mr. Ogilby observed, that we have had 

 two distinct instances of real Apes from the continental parts of India ; 

 and referred to various passages of Pliny, in which the Roman natu- 

 ralist professed to describe different races of human beings from the 

 remote provinces of India, whom he relates to have teeth likę dogs, 

 to live among trees, and to converse by frightful screams. These 

 distorted accounts Mr. Ogilby conceives to have been founded upon 



