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Asiatic Society. 



[No. 126. 



The following are the dimensions of the magnificent Gaour of which the skin, 

 prepared for being set up in our Museum, is now in progress of transmission from 

 Chyebassa, as already noticed by the Secretary. They were taken by Lieut. Tickell 

 from the recent animal, and I annex a copy of the figure which he has kindly supplied 

 me with, in order to enable our taxidermists the better to imitate the form of the 

 living beast in the stuffed specimen. 



A, B, a string passed along the back to root of tail, 



A, a, from frontal ridge to tip of muzzle, 



c, d, horns apart anteriorly at base, 



e, f, tip to tip of ditto, .... 



A. g. from nose to centre of eye, 



g, h, eye to root of horn, .... 



g, k, eye to base of ears, .... 



1, m, humerus, &c .... 



m, n, radius, 



n, o, metacarpus, 



o, p, pastern, &c. and hoof, .... 



q, r, pelvis, 



r, s, femur, .... .... 



s, t, tibia and fibula, 



t, v, metatarsus, 



v, w, pastern to end of hoof, .... 

 C. D. perpendicularly, about .... 

 C. X. length of dorsal ridge, .... 

 tail-root to tip of hairs, .... 



k, y, circumference of head behind horns, 



I, z, 

 C, 2, 

 3,4, 

 5,6, 



7,8, 

 9,10, 



II, 12, 



neck behind ears, 

 chest, .... 

 muzzle, .... 

 forerarm close to axilla, 



thigh close to body, 

 thigh close above hock, 

 " Irides grey; muzzle black; horns pale, with dark tip; hoof, blackish. 55 



I am, Sir, 



Yours obediently, 



Ed. Blyth. 



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Report for May Meeting. 



Sir, — On the present occasion, I have comparatively few donations to announce to 

 the Meeting. 



In the class of mammalia, our most interesting acquisition is the remarkably hand- 

 some Fox from beyond the Sutlej, already announced as having been presented by 

 Mr. Lushington. I presume it to be the Vulpes Nipalensis, Gray, Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 N. S., I, 578, according so far as can be made out from the very imperfect description 

 there given; but notwithstanding the differences of colour, and length and quality of 



