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the hind-toes spots. Three irregular narrow stripes of white on the 

 sides, connected by anastomosing branches, divide the coloured part 

 into island-like irregular spaces, which are black on the edges, 

 shading into fulvous in the centre ; these island-like spaces are spotted 

 with black. The tail nearly touches the ground, is pointed and 

 black, save at the under part near the anus, where it is marked with 

 a little white, and shows as it were an imperfect attempt at annula- 

 tiou. The back is black, with a bright fulvous fleur-de-lis sort of 

 marking on the neck ; a narrow band of fulvous crosses below the 

 čcapulae, from which run at right angles down the back to the rump 

 two indistinct stripes of the šame colour, about half an inch apart ; 

 the inside of the ears is fulvous, the outside black, with a white spot 

 on each ; the belly white, beautifully but irregularly spotted •svith 

 black ; a very distinct black band crosses the chest ; a \vhite spot on 

 the lower eyelid and another longer on the upper ; the cheeks are ful- 

 vous, striped with black ; the forehead is fulvous, omamented with 

 black, two stripes of which run up the forehead from the eyes, parallel 

 to each other ; they are connected together above : immediatel}'^ over 

 the e}'es are four longitudinal spots ; above these may be traced three 

 more irregular, and over these three, two, the three sets of spots 

 being as it were ranged in ranks. The fulvous colour is chiefly con- 

 fined to the fore-part of the animal. It was presented to the Royal 

 Zoological Society of Ireland in the beginning of 1843 by Payraaster 

 J. M'Creagh, of the 32nd Regiment. The foregoing description 

 was taken in January 1844, and the animal was presented to the 

 London Zoological Societj' in May 1844: when first obtained its 

 colouring wa3 very indistinct and confused ; since the description 

 ■\vas written some trifling change has taken place, particularly in the 

 extension of the white on the tail, which makes the name not quite 

 80 applicable as it was." 



Mr. Prichard read his paper " On the Crania of the Laplanders 

 and Finlanders, with observations on the differences they presented 

 from other European races." 



" Little has hitherto been done to elucidate the physical characters 

 of the Ugrian or Ugorian races, under which term late \vriters have 

 comprised the Finns and Lappes, the Magyars or Hungarians, and 

 Severai nations of Siberia*. 



" This is owing to the fact that but few specimens of the škulis of 

 these nations exist in any of the collections in Europe, and fe\v and 

 by no means perfect descriptions of them have been published. 

 Blumenbach has given in his ' Decades Craniorum' a representation 

 of the skuU of a Lappe, and he describes it as approaching altogether 

 to the Mongolian variety. Dr. Hueck gives an account of the ap- 

 pearance and general physical characters of the Esthonian Finns, 

 and sums up his observations by pointing out some very considerahle 

 differences which he finds between them and the Mongolian form ; 

 in fact he says that he can discover nothing common to the IMongo- 



* Der Usrische Volkstainm von F. H. MUUer. 



