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2. Lt Brownlow, Engineers, Lahore. Skull of Ursus isabellinus, 

 from Kashmir; and a few bird-skins, also from Kashmir, including 

 Meeops apiaster and Nucifraga multimaculata. Likewise some spe- 

 cimens of a reversed pupiform Bulimus new to the museum, and distinct 

 from B. kunawarensis of Hutton. 



3. Capt. Eobert Tytler, 38th N. I., Delhi. Five skins of birds, includ- 

 ing the Hirundo concolor, Sykes, Small Crested Lark — Galerida 

 Botsii, and Sylvia Jerdoni (if correctly distinguished from the Euro- 

 pean S. orphea). 



" The upper part of the body is of a bmT-fawn colour, with white belly and 

 legs, and a white streak from the flanks up the side. 



" Both have a dark stripe along the back, looking like a continuation of the 

 mane, except that the hair of it is short and smooth : the colour of this stripe is 

 dark brown or nearly black, and it extends all along the back and down part of 

 the tail. The male has a most distinctly marked stripe of the same colour across 

 the withers ; but the female has not. The male also has distinctly marked fawn 

 stripes on both fore and hind legs ; but I could not discern a trace of them in 

 the female. The black tuft at the end of the tail reaches to about the hocks. 

 The cross-stripe over the withers of the male was about an inch broad, and 

 extended about a foot down the shoulders on each side. Moreover there was a 

 female Ghor-khur here some years ago, and she was said to have the cross-stripe 

 on withers. This I have been told by more thafti one person who saw her." 



Of several Ghor-khurs which I have seen and minutely observed in Europe, 

 one only (in the late Surrey Zoological Gardens) had an incipient cross-stripe, 

 extending only about an inch on one side (as near as I can remember), and less 

 than half an inch on the other ; and I have sought in vain for traces of the 

 cross-stripes on the limbs : these occur in some domestic Donkeys, even adults, 

 but not in all, however young ; and are particularly distinct in some of the small 

 Asses of this country, being of a black colour (not fawn), moderately broad 

 and placed somewhat distantly apart. 



It would seem that the deserts of Southern Arabia, the Thebaid, Nubia, and Abys- 

 sinia (both on the plains and mountains), are the true indigenous home of Equus 

 asinus (the " Wild Ass" of Chesney) ; that the more northern parts of Arabia, 

 with Syria and Mesopotamia, are tenanted by the recently described E. hemippus 

 (or " Wild Horse" of Chesney) ; while the deserts of W. India, S. Afghanistan, 

 Persia, and thence onward to the Aral and beyond, are inhabited by the Ghor- 

 khur, the distinctions of which (if any) from the E. hemiontjs of middle Asia re- 

 main to be positively determined. 



"From what I have heard," remarks Dr. Scott, "the Ghor-khur is still plenti- 

 ful enough in the Bikhanor desert ; but they arc wild and difficult of approach. 





