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colour. 4. The Mastiff Fox, larger and stronger, its limbs more 

 robust, the head much broader, a dull greyish-yellow fur, pro- 

 fusely interspersed with whitish hairs, the tail dusky, with long 

 black hairs scattered over it, and a small white tip. — Dr Traill 

 then exhibited a series of beautiful and correct drawings of Bri- 

 tish quadrupeds, cetacea, birds, reptiles, and fishes, executed by 

 Mr Macgillivray, and which are intended for his projected work 

 on the vertebrate animals of Great Britain. The Assistant- 

 Secretary read Mr Nicol's account of his examination of the spe- 

 cimens of fossil wood from the island of Mull, collected by Mr 

 Cunningham ; also of various specimens from the North African 

 Desert, collected by Mr Munro and others from the Karoo 

 Ground in Southern Africa. 



Dr Charles Anderson, formerly Vice-President, in the chair. 

 — The Assistant-Secretary read Mr Hay Cunningham's paper 

 on the geology of the Island of Skye, which was accompanied 

 by numerous sketches and specimens — Sir Patrick Walker laid 

 before the meeting a series of fine marbles which he had brought 

 from the quarries of Bagneres de Bigorre. — Professor Jameson 

 exhibited and described a series of birds from the Himalayan 

 Mountains, considered as identical, or nearly so, with the Eu- 

 ropean : Strix passerina ; Alcedo ispida; Parus major; Mota- 

 cilla alba, boarula ; Garrulus glandarius ; Caryocatactes vulga- 

 ris ; Ardea nycticorax ; Numenius arquata, phoeopus ; Tringa 

 squatarola, hypoleucos, pusilla, ochropus ; Charadrius pluvialis ; 

 Cursorius haemantopus ; Podiceps minor ; (Edicnemus crepi- 

 tans ; Pterocles arenarius ; Anas clypeata, penelope, querque- 

 dula, crecca. After exhibiting and comparing the trivial 

 characters of the above species with the European, it was stated, 

 that even if all the external characters were the same, but if the 

 shape of the head differed, we were entitled, from that character 

 alone, to make a new species ; and as illustrative of this opinion, 

 it was stated, on the authority of Brehm and others, that, gene- 



