94 DR. J. E. GRAY ON A NEW CHAMELEON. [Mar. 24, 



the gonys ; the rest of it and inside of mouth pale yellowish flesh- 

 colour ; legs and toes large and thick ; claws thin and pointed, hind 

 claw long and Pipit-like, all of a deep brownish flesh- colour, with 

 paler edges and soles. 



First quill diminutive ; second one-twelfth shorter than third, which 

 is longest. Colouring similar to L. rail, and perhaps as variable, 

 according to the stage of its plumage. 



I have a few other novelties, perhaps more interesting than the 

 above, from China, but I have not now leisure to add them to this 

 list ; I must therefore reserve them for a future paper. 



3. Notice of the Chanco or Golden Wolf (Canis chanco) 

 FROM Chinese Tartars. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc. 



Lady Augustus Hervey has kindly presented to the British Mu- 

 seum a fine specimen of the skin of a Wolf, which was shot by her 

 brother, Lieut. W. P. Hodnell, of H.M.'s 54th Regiment, with several 

 other animals, such as the large Ovis amnion, in Chinese Tartary. 



It is a very showy animal, rather larger than the common Euro- 

 pean Wolf, 



I do not find it noticed either in Pallas's 'Zoographia Rosso- 

 Asiatica,' pubhshed at St. Petersburg in 1831, or in Dr. Leopold v. 

 Schrenck's ' Reisen und Forschungen im Amur-Lande in den Jahren 

 1851-56,' published at St. Petersburg in 1858, unless they regard 

 it as a variety of the Common Wolf (C lupus). 



The Russians in Eastern Siberia call a Fox {Canis alpinus) (figured 

 by Schrenck, t. 2) the krastioi Wolk, that is. Tawny Wolf. 



Canis chanco.', 



Fur fulvous, on the back longer, rigid, with intermixed black 

 and grey hairs ; the throat, chest, belly, and inside of the legs pure 

 white ; head pale grey-brown ; forehead grizzled with short black 

 and grey hairs. 



Hub. Chinese Tartary. Called Chanco. 



The skull is very like, and has the same teeth as, the European 

 Wolf (C lupus). The animal is very like a Common Wolf, but 

 rather shorter on the legs ; and the ears, the sides of the body, and 

 outside of the limbs are covered with short pale fulvous hairs. 



The length of its head and body is 42 inches ; tail 15 inches. 



4. Notice of a New Species of Chameleon sent from 

 Khartoom by Mr. Consul Petherick. By Dr. J. E. 

 Gray, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc. 



This species is very like Chamaleo senegalensis ; but the scales on 

 the ridges of the head and the lidges of the back are of the same 

 size as those of the neighbouring parts, and therefore do not form 



