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MISCELLANEOUS. 



Notice of a New Leopard from Japan. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



Mr. Keilish has kindly brought me for examination the skin of a 

 Leopard which he has received from Japan ; it is well tanned, and 

 marked on the inside with the red impressions of two Japanese seals. 



Leopardus Japanensis. 



Fulvous, paler beneath. Back and limbs ornamented with ovate 

 or roundish, unequal-sized black spots ; the spots on the shoulders, 

 back, and sides converted into a ring by a single central spot of the 

 same colour as the fur ; spot on the back of the legs large, oblong, 

 and transverse. Head with small, regularly disposed black spots ; 

 nape with four series of narrow elongated black spots, the outer 

 ones sometimes confluent into lines, and with a series of large black 

 spots on each side of the back of the neck. Tail elongate, spotted, 

 paler, and with four black rings at the tip. Hab. Japan. 



The skin at first sight seems much like that of a fine-coloured 

 Hunting Leopard ; but it is at once distinguished from that animal 

 by the larger size and brown centre of the black spots, and from 

 all the varieties of the Leopard by the linear spots on the nape and 

 the spots on the back not being formed of smaller spots. 



The skin is 4 feet 6 inches, and the tail 2 feet 10 inches long. 



Notice of a New "Wild Goat" (Capricornus Swinhoei) from the 

 Island of Formosa. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



Mr. Swinhoe having kindly shown me some Mammalia from the 

 Island of Formosa, I have the pleasure of sending the description 

 of a new Goat- Antelope. 



Capricornus Sivinhoei. 



Fur harsh and crisp. Brown : a narrow streak down the back of 

 the neck, a spot on the knee, and the front of the four legs below the 

 knee black ; the hind legs bay ; the sides of the chin pale yellowish ; 

 under side of the neck yellow-bay, separated from the upper part of the 

 neck by a ridge of longer hairs. Ears long, brown, pale internally. 



Hab. Formosa, on the central ridge of the Snowy Mountains. 



This species is very distinct from Capricornus crispa of Japan, 

 which has a white face. The skull has a deep and wide concavity 

 in front of the orbits, and a keeled ridge on the cheek. The horns 

 are short and conical. 



Death of Fishes in the Sea during the Monsoon. 



In a letter to Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir William Denison, the 

 Governor of Madras, observes that, in steaming between Mangalore 

 and Cananore on the west coast of India, he found that for some 

 time after the south-west monsoon the sea was offensive with dead 

 fish, killed by the great mass of fresh water poured into the sea 

 during the season of the monsoon. — Proc. Geol. Soc. June 18, 1862. 



