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lege and the Burhampootra, and which seems to extend, with some 

 immaterial differences, into the Vindyia, the Ghauts, the Nilgiris, the 

 Casiah Hills, and in the chain passing brokenly from Mirzapore 

 through South Bahar and Orissa to the Coromandel Coast. 



Of this race, although so wild as to be rarely seen, Mr. Hodgson 

 has succeeded in obtaining many individuals ; some of which lived in 

 confinement many months, and even produced young, having been 

 pregnant when they reached him. He is consequently enabled to 

 describe not only the form and colours, but the manners also, which 

 he does in great detail. The form he compares particularly with 

 that of the Indian Jackal and the Indian Fox, short notices of which 

 he gives as an Appendix, and comparative figures of which with the 

 Budnsu he also forwards with his paper. The paper is also accom- 

 panied by comparative figures of the crania of these several species ; 

 and the description given of this important part of the animal structure 

 is also comparative. 



The Buansu prevs by night as well as by day, and hunts in packs 

 of from six to ten individuals, maintaining the chase rather by its 

 powers of smell than by the eye, and generally overcoming its quarry 

 by dint of force and perseverance. In hunting, it barks like a hound ; 

 but its bark is peculiar, and equally unlike that of the cultivated 

 breeds of Dogs and the strains of the Jackal and the Fox. 



Adults in captivity made no approach towards domestication ; but 

 a young one, which Mr. Hodgson obtained when it was not more than 

 a month old, became sensible to caresses ; distinguished the dogs of 

 its own kennel from others, as well as its keeper from strangers ; 

 and in its whole conduct manifested to the full as much intelligence 

 as any of his sporting dogs of the same age. 



October 8.— A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by VV. A. 

 Wooler, Esq., and giving an account of a wild Dog from the Maha- 

 blishwar Hills, now known as Malcolm's Pate, in the Presidency of 

 Bombay : its local name is Dhale. The habits of this Dog, in a state 

 of nature, are described by Mr. Wooler : they accord with those of the 

 Buansu of Nepal, as detailed by Mr. Hodgson in a paper read at the 

 previous Meeting of the Society. 



A specimen was exhibited of the hairless Egyptian variety of the 

 familiar Dog, which had recently died at the Society's Gardens. 

 The exhibition was made principally with the view of illustrating 

 the apparent connexion between teeth and hair. In this animal, 

 so remarkable for its deficiency of hair, a corresponding deficiency 

 of teeth was observed ; there being neither incisors nor canines in 

 either jaw, and the molars being reduced to one on each side, the 

 large tubercular tooth being the only one remaining. 



Mr. Yarrell stated in further illustration of the subject, that he 

 had examined the mouths of two individuals of the same variety 

 still living at the Gardens, in both of which he found the teeth re- 

 markably deficient. In neither of them were there any false molars ; 

 one was entirely destitute of canines also, these teeth being in the 

 other short of the usual number ; and the incisors were also in both 

 deficient in number. 



