378 Zoological Society. 



of Dukhun, Canis Dukhunensis , Sykes, for the purpose of comparing 

 it with a skin of the wild Dog of Nepal, Canis primcevus, Hodgs., 

 recently presented to the Society by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Coir. 

 Memb. Z. S. (Seep. 62.) He showed that the two Dogs are perfectly 

 similar in their general form, and in the form of the cranium ; and that 

 in his specimen, equally with that of Mr. Hodgson, the hinder tuber- 

 cular tooth of the lower jaw is wanting. The only differences re- 

 markable between the two specimens are in the quality and colour 

 of the fur, that of the Dukhun Dog being paler and less dense than 

 that of the individual from Nepal. These differences, depending 

 probably on climate and individual peculiarity, cannot be regarded 

 as sufficient to indicate a distinction between the two races. Iden- 

 tical as they are in form and habits, Col. Sykes considers them as 

 belonging to one species. A short notice of the Dukhun Dog, com- 

 municated by him to the Committee of Science and Correspondence, 

 was published in the Phil. Mag. and Annals, N.S. vol. x. p. 305 ; 

 and a detailed account of it, read by him before the Royal Asiatic 

 Society, has just appeared in the Transactions of that body. 



At the request of the Chairman, Mr. Gould exhibited a series of 

 Earylaimi, Horsf., in illustration of a paper *' On an undescribed 

 Species" of that genus from Rangoon, which he characterized as 

 Eurylaimus lunatus. The beak of this bird is dark olive inclining to 

 black, and is lighter at its edges and along the culmen. The tarsi are 

 brownish black. The beautiful semilunar mark which extends 

 across the whole of each side of the neck, consists of silvery white 

 feathers, elevated above the rest, and abruptly terminated as if 

 clipped by scissors. 



The exhibition was resumed of the new species of Shells con- 

 tained in the collection made by Mr. Cuming on the Western Coast 

 of South America and among the Islands of the South Pacific Ocean. 

 Those exhibited on the present evening were accompanied by cha- 

 racters by Mr. G. B. Sowerby, and consisted of the following species, 

 thirty-six in number, of the genus Pleurotoma, viz. Pleukot. 

 maura, unimaculata, rosea, Clavulus, rudis, Oxytropis, maculosa, al- 

 bicostata, clavata, bicolor, splendidula, olivacea, c'tneta, bicanalifera, 

 cornuta, rugifera, modesta, discors, pallida, aterrima, nigerrima, 

 adusta, Turricula, cor rvgata. interrupt a, excentrica, incrassata, dupli- 

 cata, unicolor, rustica, granulosa, variculosa, nitida, collaris, hexagona, 

 and formicaria. 



The skins were exhibited of a Lion and Lioness killed in Guzerat 

 by Captain Walter Smee, who, at the request of the Chairman, 

 stated that they were selected from among eleven obtained by him 

 in the same country, eight of which he had brought with him to 

 England. The Lion is distinguished from those previously known 

 by the absence of a mane from the sides of the neck and shoulders, 

 the middle line of the back of the neck being alone furnished with 

 longer hairs, which are erect like those in the same situation in the 

 Cheetah, Felis julata, Schreb. The under surface of the neck has 

 long, loose, silky hairs, and there is a tuft at the angle of the ante- 

 rior legs. 



