1848.] Miscellaneous. 573 



This compelled him to make more exertion for the purpose of getting 

 into the road from Harngachy to Walloongchoong, and on the 9th he 

 was at Sakiagong, on a tributary of the Konke river, and ready to move 

 northwards for the snowy range. 



He was therefore at that date in a fair way to attain his object, for 

 he says: — "I got a glorious round of angles yesterday, Phughloot, 

 Nangbi, &c. which will do well to fix my position. This is a lovely 

 country, and I am enjoying myself vastly, have a few new plants, lots 

 of observations, and we go north to-morrow." 



I shall not fail to report progress as I get it. This is a most im- 

 portant and interesting expedition, worthy of Dr. Hooker's powers, and 

 of it. It will give materials for maps, climatology, botany, &c. &c. for 

 a portion of the Himalaya altogether unexplored and unknown. 



Addendum on the Anatomy of Ailurus, by B. H. Hodgson, Esq, 



I had scarcely despatched to you my description of the anatomy of 

 Ailurus, deduced from two junior specimens, when my shooters killed a 

 mature specimen in my own immediate vicinity, at an elevation of about 

 7300 feet. It proved to be a female, mature, but only just so, and was 

 killed in a lofty tree. As this type is the sole representative of a family, 

 and is one of the most anomalous of quadrupeds, I shall make no 

 apology for troubling you with a few additional remarks on its anatomy, 

 not however needlessly reiterating what has been already noted, and is 

 free from doubt. 



Ailurus fidv ens ? A female mature but not at all aged, 20^ inches 

 from snout to vent. Has the deep ochreous red of the superior sur- 

 face of the body, tipt largely with aureous ; whence, and from the pre- 

 sently to be noted anatomical differences, I conjecture it may be fulvens 

 and not ochraceus. Teats 8. No anal glands or pores. Lungs with 

 3 main divisions, about equal, and each composed of one large and oue 

 small lobe, 6 lobes in all. Liver also with a primary triple division ; 

 its right lobe largest and almost equally bifid ; its left lobe next in size 

 and also bifid, but less equally ; its central lobe, smallest of all and 

 trifid. Consequently 7 lobes in all. Gall-bladder empty, collapsed, a 

 long ellipse, If inch long by f inch wide, very freely suspended in the 

 cleft of the central lobe of the liver. Its duct, large and distinct, 2 



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