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extend in the specimen described so far back as in the former spe- 

 cies. The hairs of the whole body are very short in comparison, 

 and much stiiFer and more closely set. The animal is considerably 

 larger, as far as can be ascertained, and the tail, for a stuffed speci- 

 men, shorter in proportion." 



Specimens of both species were upon the table, and Mr. Bell ex- 

 hibited drawings, showing the plantigrade character of the foot, and 

 some of the internal organs. 



Mr. Gould exhibited a small collection of rare European birds 

 which had just been received by him from M. Temminck of Leyden. 

 Among them were examples of Grus leucogeranus, Strix ascala- 

 phus, Limosa Terek, Pyrrhula rosea, Emberiza Lesbia, LarusAudouinii, 

 and a rare species of Harrier which had been killed on the banks of 

 the Rhine ; this, Mr. Gould observed, was the Circus pallidus lately 

 characterized by Col. Sykes in his Catalogue of the Birds observed 

 by him in the Dukhun, and published in the second part of the 

 Proceedings (1832.). 



