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and that the Korrkjum of Denham and Clapperton's Travels, identi- 

 fied with A. Senegalcnsis by Mr. Children and Colonel Smith, was a 

 very distinct animal from the Koba, and even belonged to a different 

 natural genus. It has horns in the female sex and lachrymal si- 

 nuses, both of which characters are absent in the Koba : he there- 

 fore proposed to distinguish the Bornou animal by the specific name 

 t)i A. Korrigum. The same observation applies to the two species 

 which Colonel H. Smith has described under the names oi A. Ade- 

 nota and A. Forfex, and which he identified with the Kob and Gam- 

 btan Antelope respectively ; both these animals had lachrymal sinuses, 

 whereas, both Buifon and the more accurate Daubenton, expressly 

 declare that the Kob is without this character. The animals in the 

 Gardens, however, corresponded in all respects with the original de- 

 scriptions; their comparative size, their colour, their habitat, their 

 zoological characters, as far as they were reported, and, in the case 

 of the Koba, even the name, were identical ; and it therefore gave 

 him peculiar satisfaction to be able to congratulate the Society on 

 the possession of two of the rarest and most interesting Antelopes 

 ever brought together. He observed, in conclusion, that the female 

 of the Kob had been observed by him six or eight months ago in 

 the Surrey Zoological Gardens, but that he had only recognised its 

 identity with Buffon's animal on the arrival of the fine male speci- 

 men at present belonging to the Society. 



Mr. Ogilby afterwards exhibited the skin of a Fox from the Hima- 

 layan mountains, which he has described in the Zoological Part of 

 Mr. Royle's "Flora Himalaica," under the name of Canis Himalaicus . 

 This animal, of which Mr. Ogilby stated that he had examined three 

 skins, two belonging to the Zoological Society, and one procured by 

 Mr. Royle at Mussooree, (the two former in their summer, the latter 

 in its winter dress,) appears to be rare in Nepaul, since Mr. Hodg- 

 son has never been able to procure a specimen, but contents himself 

 with indicating its existence {vide Proceed. Zool. Soc. H. 97); it is 

 not uncommon, however, in the Doon, in Kumaon, and the more 

 western and elevated parts of the Mountains, where it is called the 

 hill Fox by the Europeans, and greatly admired for the beauty of its 

 form, and the brilliancy and variety of its colours. The whole length 

 to the origin of the tail is 2 feet 6 inches ; that of the tail, 1 foot 6 

 inches; that of the ears, 4 inches; and the height may be about 1 foot 

 4 or 5 inches. The animal agrees with the common European and 

 American Foxes, (C. Vulpes and C.fulvus,) in the black marks on 

 the backs of the ears, and in front of the hind and fore legs. The 

 coat consists of long close rich fur, as fine as that of any of the Ame- 

 rican varieties, and of infinitely more brilliant and varied colours. It 

 consists of two sorts of hair, an interior of a very fine cottony tex- 

 ture, and aii external of a long silky nature, but perfectly pliant, and, 

 like the fur of the Sable, lying almost equally smooth in any direc- 

 tion. The inner fur is of a smoky blue or brown colour along the 

 back, as is likewise the basal half of the outer silky hair, which, up to 

 this point, is of the same soft cottony texture as the interior fur; it 

 then assumes its harsher silky character, is marked with a broad 



