Corrections in Mr. Hodgson's Catalogue* 413 



at the will of the animal. With regard to the other pores, 

 before spoken of, these disappeared when the external skin 

 of the anus was dissected off, as I had anticipated from 

 their shallowness : but the margin of the anus around them 

 shewed some scattered glandlike spots, that might possibly 

 be contributory of some secretion to them. In the Jackal, 

 the great central lateral pore, sac, and secretion, were found 

 on either side the anus, precisely as in the Buansu, only the 

 odour of the secretion was less pungent. None of the other 

 pores were discovered. In the domestic Dog also, the 

 latter pores were wholly wanting ; but the central one on 

 either side existed, though evanescently, and without sac, or 

 secretion ; whence it would seem to be explained, this ani- 

 mal's freedom from the villainous taint peculiar to its wild 

 congeners, and which in them doubtless is subservient to 

 important ends, is superceded possibly by domestication, 

 for I would speak with caution, as having yet made but 

 limited examination of the facts. In the meanwhile it should 

 be remembered, that the Buansu's anal apparatus has some 

 peculiarities exclusively proper to it. 



The Editor of the Calcutta Journal of Natural History. 



Sir, — The hurried and piecemeal fashion in which the Catalogue 

 you have just published of Nipalese Mammals was sent you, has 

 naturally caused several errors and omissions on the part of your 

 printer, which the following paper will correct : — 



P. 215. Genus Felis, dele the word subgenera from the line, and 



place it above and separate : add the species Macrocelis, which is 



omitted. 

 P. 213. Dele subgenera from the line, as before, and place it above. 

 P. 214. Genus Mustela : add the new species Calotus, making four 



species in all. 

 Same page, dele the N. B. after the genus Mesobema, and place it 



above, under the genus Gulo. It is our Gulo Nipalensis, which 



Gray describes as the Helictis Moschatus from China. 



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