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nose, his intermaxillary pouches, and hollow-cored horns, stands in 

 some respects alone," and hence Mr. Hodgson is disposed to sug- 

 gest the regarding it as representing " a new subgenus, to be termed 

 Pantholops , the vulgar old name for the Unicorn." " The habits and 

 manners of the Chirti, his medial size, and his elegant vigorous form, 

 ally him most to the Antilopine and Gazelline groups, and equally 

 to both." 



Some extracts were read from a Letter addressed by the Presi- 

 dent, Lord Stanley, to the Secretary, giving an account of the 

 breeding of seveval Birds in his Lordship's Menagerie at Knovvsley. 

 The red Grosbeak, Loxia Cardinalis. Linn., has a nest of three young 

 which are nearly fledged ; and a single young one of the Toivhee 

 Bunting, Emberiza erythrophthalma , Gmel., has been hatched. The 

 Loxia cucuUata has this year, as last year also, made a nest and laid 

 one egg ; and the American yellow Bird, Fringilla tristis, Linn., is 

 now sitting. 



The gosling of the Sandvjich Island Goose, respecting which 

 a. notice from Lord Stanley was read on May 27, (p. 4<L) 

 <' is now fully as large as tlie parents, and nearly resembles them 

 in plumage ; the only differences being about the neck, which 

 is more indistinct in front and wants the full extension of the 

 black down the nape, and the collar at the bottom just above the 

 breast is only faintly marked. The legs also are as yet of a dirty 

 greenish yellow tinge. It is not pinioned, but has hitherto shown 

 no wish to use its wings. In fact they are the tamest of the tame, 

 scarcely will move out of one's way if in the walks, and are con- 

 stantly coming into the building, even more familiarly than the 

 common Ducks." 



A specimen was exhibited of the Manis Temminckii, Smuts, 

 forming part of the collection made by Mr. Steedman in Southern 

 Africa. Mr. Bennett stated that his object in calling the attention 

 of the Society to it was to point out the external characteristics of 

 a species known to its original describer by its skeleton alone and 

 by a few detached scales. 



It may be thus characterized: 



Manis Temminckii, Smuts. Man.capite breviore ; corpore latiore, 

 squamis magnis, ll-seriatis ; cauda truncum longitudine suha- 

 quajtte, latitudine paullo minore, ad apicem subtruncahim vix an- 

 gustiore. 

 Hab. apud Latakoo? 



Long. tot. 25.V unc. ; cauda, 12 j lat. dorsi, 8; cauda, prope 

 apicem, 5. 



The most remarkable features of this animal are the shortness of 

 the head ; the breadth of the body j and the breadth of the tail, 

 which is nearly equal to that of the body, and continues throughout 

 the greater part of its extent of nearly the same width, tapering 



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