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part of throat pure lemon-yellow ; crown of the head black ; 

 postoccipital plumes yellow ; nape yellowish green tipped with black ; 

 a lengthened tuft of plumes springing from above the eye bright 

 orange j a line immediately below this tuft black ; a tuft of stiff 

 decomposed feathers springing from below the eye and extending over 

 the ears white or greyish white ; an irregular band across the throat 

 black ; dorsal feathers grey with light olive-green tips and white shafts ; 

 uropygium yellowish green ; upper tail-coverts the same, tinged 

 with rufous ; lower throat and upper breast bright yellow, most of the 

 feathers with black terminal drops ; lower breast and rest of under 

 plumage duller yellow tinged with green on the flanks ; quills brown 

 margined with yellowish olive-green, inner margin of quills pale 

 yellow ; wing-coverts dull olive-green, carpal edge and wing-lining 

 yellow ; tail dull rufous. 



Wing 2-62, tail 2'37, tarsus 0*87, culmen 0'75. 



Hab. Valencia, Island of Negros, d , August. Iris crimson ; 

 bill orange-yellow. (Everett.) 



The hereditary affinity of this new form with Macronus striati- 

 ceps and Mixornis capitalis is betrayed by the colouring and 

 markings of the dorsal plumage. 



February 5, 1878. 

 Prof. St. George Mivart., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of January 1878. 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of January was 91, of which 43 were by pre- 

 sentation, I by birth, 4 1 by purchase, and 6 were received on deposit. 

 The total number of departures during the same period, by death and 

 removals, was 78. 



The most remarkable additions during the month of January were 

 as follows : — 



1. A Japanese Wild Dog, presented by Harry Pryer, Esq., of 

 Yokohama, January 1st — an animal apparently allied to the "Dhole" 

 of India and the "Dingo" of Australia. Mr. E. W. Janson has 

 kindly favoured me with the following extracts from two letters which 

 he has received from Mr. Pryer on this subject. 



*' Yokohama, Oct. 8th, 1877. 

 " I have sent by the ' Loudoun Castle,' via New York, a fine speci- 

 men of the Japanese Wild Dog. This is an animal quite new, and is 

 neither a Wolf nor an ordinary Dog. Its principal distinguishing 

 features are its long narrow feet and its head ; it most resembles the 

 dog used by the hunters here, one of which is figured in Siebold. Its 

 habits are totally different from those of any domesticated Dog. When 

 pleased it has a most extraordinary way of laughing, and also, when 

 pleased or very angry, has a curious dancing gait. This specimen 



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