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larly striped with the second ; and its forehead and the fronts of its 

 limbs were much less darkened than in either of the others. 



It should be added that the fleshy tumour on the margin of the 

 nostrils is covered with hair likę the ręst of the head ; and that the 

 suborbital sinuses appear, on closer exaraination, to be wanting. 



In illustration of the history of the noinenclature of the species 

 Dr. Wallich forwarded a note addressed to himself by the late Dr. 

 Clarke Abel, in which that gentleman stated his intention of dedi- 

 cating it to its discoverer, an intention v\hich he subsequently car- 

 ried into efFect. 



The skin of the rvild Dog of Nepal was compared by Col. Sykes 

 with a specimen of the Kolsun of the Mahrattas, recently described 

 by him in the ' Proceedings' (Part L, p. 100) under the name of 

 Canis Dukhunensis. He stated his impression to be, that the ani- 

 mals are identical, differing only by the denser coat and more woolly 

 feet of the Nepal race, a diflPerence readily accounted for by the 

 greater cold of the elevated regions inhabited by it. He declined, 

 hovvever, pronouncing a decided opinion, jvhich, he thought, could 

 only be arrived at by more extensive comparison and by a full ac- 

 quaintance wilh the habits of the toild Dog of Nepal. 



Among the Birds contained in Mr. Hodgson's collection was 

 exhibited a specimen of the Hcematornis undulatus, a species de- 

 scribed in the First Part of the 'Proceedings' of the Committee, 

 p. 170, and figured in Mr. Gould's 'Century of Birds,' The spe- 

 cimen agreed accurately with ihat which had been previously ex- 

 hibited to the Committee except in size; the present specimen 

 being about one third larger. From this difference in size it n'as 

 conjectured to be a female. Specimens were also in the collection 

 of the Myophonus Temminckii, the difference between which species 

 and the Mi/ophonusjiavirostris {inetallicus, Temm.) had been pointed 

 out in the šame Part of the 'Proceedings', p. 171. The separation 

 of the two species was thus further justified by the accurate accord- 

 ance of several specimens of the Nepalese bird, in those characters 

 which separated them from the Archipelagan species. A specimen 

 o( Zoothera mo7ificola was also included in the exhibition, vvhich 

 deviated in no respect from that already described in the ' Proceed- 

 ings', p. 172, and figured by Mr. Gould. 



An interesting species of HornbiU, which had been described by 

 Mr. Hodgson in the ' Asiatic Researches', vol, xvii. p. 178, but 

 which had never before been seen in Europe, accompanied the 

 former birds. Its characters are as follows: 



BucEROS Nepalensis, Hodgson. Buc. nter, dorso alisgue viridi- 

 splendeniibus ; remigibiis iertid ad septiniam inclusam, rectrici- 

 busque ad npices albis ; rostro albo, mandibidd superion strigis 

 sex latis atris ohlique j)OSitis 7iotatd. 



Jun. capite, colio, abdomineque rufo-brunneis ; rostro albo Iiaud 

 nolato. 



Longitudo corporis, 39 unc. ; rostri, 74; ala a carpo ad apicem 

 remigis 5tse, 15^; tarsij 2^; caudcE, 17-Į-. 



