240 A. 0. Hume — On tivo tmdescribed species of Goat. [Dec. 



* At Agori there is now a very picturesque Fort, and near it, just 

 over the Bijol, is a very picturesque temple (Somnath). Agori was once 

 a place of much trading importance. The temple was planted by Agorwala 

 banias who were the chief of the Agori merchants, and is still a place of 

 pilgrimage and very sacred to this class. The Fort belongs to the Agori 

 Barhor Raj, now under the management of the Court of Wards.' 



The following gentlemen, duly proposed and seconded at the last 

 meeting, were elected ordinary members — 



Maulawi Khuda Baksh Khan Sahib, Bankipur, (Patna) ; Babu Bam 

 Das Sen, Berhampur ; Captain M. Protheroe, Port Blair ; R. E. Egerton, 

 Esq., Lahore. 



The following are candidates for ballot at the next meeting-— 



John Sutherland Gunn, M. B., Surgeon, Bengal Army, proposed by 

 Mr. J. Wood-Mason, seconded by Mr. H. Blochmann. 



Captain C. J. F. S. Forbes, Deputy Commissioner, Shwygyeen (British 

 Burma) proposed by Col. Hamilton, seconded by Col. H. Hyde. 



Richard Lydekker, Esq., B. A. Geological Survey of India, proposed by 

 Mr. H. B. Medlicott, seconded by Mr. J. Wood-Mason. 



Babu Shj^ama Charan Sarkar, has intimated his desire to withdraw 

 from the Society. 



The President announced that the Council have elected Dr. T. R. Lewis 

 to be a member of their body vice Mr. Geoghegan, who has left India, and 

 Babu Prannath Pandit a member of the Philological Committee. 



Also that the Council have sanctioned the continuance of the pension 

 of Rs. 3 per month, to Islam Khan, lately a taxidermist attached to the 

 Museum, for a further period of one year, subject to reconsideration at the 

 expiration of that time. 



The following papers were read — • 



1. JVote 071 two apip arently undescrihed species of Goat from Nortliern 

 India and a new species of Dove from the Nicohar Islands, Btj Allan 

 O. Hume, C. B. 



In recently preparing, for the use of friends collecting them for. me, a 

 brief paper on the horns of India, I found in my collection two species 

 that appear to be unnamed. 



The first is the Suleyman Range Makhore, which differs conspicuous- 

 ly from Capra megaceros of Cashmere, in that while the horns of the latter 

 resemble a corkscrew, those of the former are more like an ordinary screw. 

 I have called this species Capra Jerdoni, 



The second is the Sindh Ibex which does not, to my idea, agree at all 

 with the descriptions or plates of Capra Caucasica to which it is usually 

 referred ; I have called this Capra Bli/thi. 



