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M.Geoffroy and others have since identified it, is so imperfectly figured 

 and described as to apply with almost equal justice to any of the re- 

 lated species. It became necessary therefore to give a new name to 

 the true Malbrouck ; which, as its characters appear to have been of 

 late completely misunderstood, even in France, seemed also to require 

 a new description to assist in its recognition. Buffon's figure, and the 

 accompanying description by Daubenton, were taken from a female ; 

 the Society's specimen is a male. 



Cercopithecus tephrops. Cere, supra fusco-virescens, infrh, 

 albidus; artubus externe grisescentibus ■ facie pallide earned, 

 naso, ge?iis, labiorumque marginibus pilis brevibus fuliginosis 

 conspersis. 



The colour of the upper surface resembles that of the Green Mon- 

 key, Cere. Sabceus, Geoff., having the separate hairs ringed with black 

 and yellow ; on the outsides of the legs it has more of a greyish hue, 

 the lighter rings on the hairs having little of the yellow tinge. The 

 under surface is nearly of a pure white, and this extends to the in- 

 sides of the limbs and to the sides of the neck anteriorly, where the 

 hairs do not attain a sufficient length to constitute moustaches. 

 The naked parts of the hands, and the nails, are black ; the ears 

 dusky ; and the face is of a light flesh colour, with short black hairs, 

 giving a sooty tinge to the nose, cheeks, and edges of the lips, from 

 which a circle round the eyes and the space surrounding the nos- 

 trils are free. There is a narrow light bandeau traversing the fore- 

 head above the superciliary ridges. The tail, in its mutilated state, 

 is nearly as long as the body, and is of the same colour as the latter 

 above, and lighter beneath. The length of the body appears to be 

 about 18, that of the tail 16 inches. 



A paper entitled "Further Illustrations of the Antilope Hodgsonii, 

 Abel," by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z.S., was read, — an 

 abstract of which is given in the " Proceedings" of the Society. 



A " Description of the wild Dog of Nepal," by B. H. Hodgson, 

 Esq., Corr. Memb. Z. S., was read. Its local name is Buansu. It 

 is characterized as the 



Canis prim^evus. Can. dentibus molaribus in maxilld inferiore 

 utrinque sex ; palmis plantisque pilosis; auribus erectis ; supra 

 saturate rubiginosus, infra Jlavescens ; caudd insigniter cornosd, 

 recta, mediocri. 



The very remarkable peculiarity in the number of the molar teeth 

 of the lower jaw, indicated in the specific character, has been veri- 

 fied by Mr. Hodgson on the examination of the crania of three adult, 

 two mature, and one young individual of the race. The deficient 

 number is occasioned by the absence of the second tubercular tooth. 

 All the other teeth exist in the ordinary number and positions. 



At the commencement of his paper, Mr. Hodgson remarks on the 

 uncertainty that prevails as to the primitive stock of the familiar Dog, 

 and rejecting, with most modern zoologists, the claim of the Wolf, 

 the Jackal, and the Fox to rank as its prototype, he also argues against 

 regarding as such the half reclaimed Dingo of Australia. He thinks 

 that he has detected this original race in the Budnsu of Nepal, 

 the eastern and western limits of whose range appear to be the Sut- 



