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largely, and the remaining three extensively tipped with white, the 
extent of the white increasing as the feathers recede from the centre ; 
under tail-coverts white ; upper tail-coverts and thighs striated with 
white. 
Total length, 144 inches ; bill, 14; wing, 82; tail, 7; tarsi, 15. 
This species exceeds in size both the NV. caryocatactes and N. he- 
mispila, but at the same time has a smaller and more slender bill than 
either of those birds; it also differs from both of them in its length- 
ened and cuneiform tail; it has a greater quantity of white on the 
apical portion of the tail-feathers than the European species, but less 
than is found in the NV. hemispila; the white markings of the back 
and the entire under surface are also much larger and more numerous 
than in either of the other species, and are most remarkably developed 
on the scapularies. 
The only specimen I have seen of this fine species is in the Museum 
of the Philosophical Society at York ; its precise habitat is unknown, 
but as other species which were certainly from Simla in India accom- 
panied it, we may reasonably conclude it was from that country. 
3. NOTES ON THE DISSECTION OF THE PARADOXURUS TyPUs, 
AND OF Dipeus Heyrtius. By H. N. Turner, Jun. 
Having received, through the liberality of the Society, a few of 
the animals that have died in the menagerie in the course of the pre- 
sent winter, I feel bound to lay before them, as well as I may be able, 
whatever details of structure I observe which may be new, or may 
- give rise to ideas calculated to assist in the advancement of the science. 
Since the Society have done me the honour to insert in their Pro- 
ceedings* the somewhat lengthened communication which I was last 
permitted to lay before them, I hope that the remarks I have now to 
offer, some of which have a bearing on the same subject, may also 
prove acceptable. 
It formed part of my object in that paper to demonstrate that the 
Viverrine group, (of which the Paradoxuri are now universally ad- 
mitted to form a part,) are so closely allied to the Cats as to safely 
warrant their being united with them in one family, instead of being 
looked upon as a section intermediate to the canine and feline groups, 
or, on account of their number of tuberculous molars, more closely 
allied to the former, in which light they have very frequently been 
considered: and I think it will be apparent, from the observations I 
have now to bring forward, that the genus Paradoxurus, one of the 
least exclusively carnivorous of the order, and formerly associated 
with the Bears in the plantigrade division, has a much closer relation- 
ship with the group, which, from its being pre-eminently carnivorous, 
is usually considered as “typical”’ of the order, than naturalists have 
been wont to anticipate. It is not unfrequently the case, that when 
an affinity between two species or genera is established upon essen- 
tial peculiarities of structure, certain minor details, or even habits and 
actions of the animal, remind one so forcibly of the relationship we 
* See also vol. iii. p. 397 of thisJournal. 
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