806 MR. H. SEEBOHM ON SIBERIAN EGGS AND BIRDS. [DeC. 4, 



Laglaize, who brought it back with him from his recent successful 

 expedition to New Guinea. 



4. An example of the Maned Fox of South America, or Brazilian 

 Wolf {Canis jubatus), purchased Nov. 30th. Of this remarkable 

 carnivore no specimen, so far as I know, has been previously brought 

 alive to Europe ; and it is even a desideratum in many museums. 



Our example, which is young, probably not quite full-grown, was 

 obtained for the Society through the agency of Mr. Petty, of Buenos 

 Ayres, who states that it is the only specimen he has met with in 

 captivity during many years in which he has been in the habit of 

 interesting himself in living animals. The figure of Burmeister 

 (Erlaut. zur Fauna Brasiliens, p. 25, pi. xxi.) does not quite agree 

 with our individual, which, as will be seen by the drawing now exhi- 

 bited (Plate LXXXI.), is of a nearly uniform foxy brown colour, and 

 has the interior of the large ears densely clothed with woolly hairs. 



Mr. Henry Seebohm exhibited some of the rarer eggs and birds 

 which he obtained on his recent visit to the arctic regions of the 

 Yen-e-say in East Siberia, and gave a rapid sketch of his journey. 



Amongst the eggs which he exhibited were those of Turdus pollens, 

 Phylloscopus borealis, P. tristis, P. super ciliosus, Accentor mon- 

 tanellus, Emberiza pusilla, Charadrius longipes, Tringa minuta, 

 Anser rujicollis, and Oygniis bewickii. 



Some of the most interesting skins were those of birds in imma- 

 ture plumage, e. g. : — young in down of Charadrius longipes ; young 

 in first plumage of Txirdus iliacus, T. pilaris, T. fuscatus, T. atri- 

 gularis, T. pallens, Emberiza pusilla, and Anthus 7-ichardi. 



He also exhibited young in first plumage of Locustella certhiola 

 (Pallas, nee Middendorff), and pointed out the identity of this species 

 with L. rubescens of Blyth, L. dorice of Salvadori, and probably 

 with L. minor of David and Oustalet. 



He also pointed out that L. ochotensis of Middendorff (of which 

 he had examined the types in the St. Petersburg Museum) was not a 

 good species, being the young in second plumage of L. certhiola 

 (Midd. nee Pall.). Of this species he exhibited two specimens of 

 the adult — one from Kamchatka, the type of L. subcerthiola of 

 Swinhoe, and a second skin from Urup Isla, south of Kamchatka, — 

 and a specimen of the young in second plumage, the type of Arun-r 

 dinax blakistoni of Swinhoe (Ibis, 1876, p. 332, pi. viii. fig. 1). 



Mr. Seebohm also stated that an examination of the skins of certain 

 Acrocephali in the St. -Petersburg Museum, collected by Prjevalsky 

 in the valley of the Ussuri, in Swinhoe's collection, obtained by him 

 in China, and in the collections of Lord Tweeddale and the British 

 Museum, obtained by Wallace and others in the islands of the Malay 

 archipelago, had convinced him that Acrocephahts fasciolatus of 

 Gray and Calamoherpe subflavescens of Elliot were identical, and were 

 the young in second plumage of Acrocephalus insularis of Wallace, 

 of which Calamoherpe fumigata of Swinhoe is a synonym. 



He also exhibited a series of hybrids between Corvus corone and 

 C. comix, which habitually interbreed in the valley of the Yen-e-sav. 



