of the Littnean Society. 335 



" and informs me that the ufage was to coUe^l all the dogs 

 " of every fort in the neighbourhood, and to borrow wolf- 

 " dogs from the principal gentlemen, who alone had them, 

 *' and who ufually affifled in the chace. A tenth part of 

 " the dogs ufed were not wolf-dogs, which never were in 

 *' any number in the hands of the common people. I con- 

 " ceive alfo that thefc dogs having m nnfc, other kinds were 

 " neceffary to find the game and follow the fcent of it. 

 " Scahil defcribed wolves with fuch perfect accuracy, I 

 " have no doubt of his being well acquainted with the 

 " animal." 



At the fame time Mr. Lambert prefented to the Society 

 fpecimens of the new kind of Bark from Tecamez in South 

 America (with a whole tree of the fame), defcribed by him 

 in his Account of the Genus Cinchona, lately publiflied. 



^pril 4, Mr. Lambert exhibited a drawing of the ^rdea comata, 



i;97. var. /?, of Latham, fl^ot at Boyton in Wiltfliire, near a 



river, by Edmund Lambert, Efq. in the year 1775, fup- 



pofed to be the only one of the kind ever found in England. 



END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. 



