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Show 806 MR. H. SEEBOHM ON SIBERIAN EGGS AND BIRDS. [Dec. 4, Laglaize, who brought it back with him from his recent successful expedition to New Guinea. 4. A n example of the Maned Fox of South America, or Brazilian Wolf (Canis jubatus), purchased Nov. 30th. Of this remarkable carnivore no specimen, so far as I know, has been previously brought alive to Europe; and it is even a desideratum in many museums. Our example, which is young, probably not quite full-grown, was obtained for the Society through the agency of Mr. Petty, of Buenos Ayres, who states that it is the only specimen be has met with in captivity during many years in which he has been in the habit of interesting himself in living animals. The figure of Burmeister (Erlaut. zur Fauna Brasiliens, p. 25, pl. xxi.) does not quite agree with our individual, which, as will be seen by the drawing now exhibited (Plate LXXXI.), is of a nearly uniform foxy brown colour, and has the interior of the large ears densely clothed with woolly hairs. Mr. Henry Seebohm exhibited some of the rarer eggs and birds which he obtained on his recent visit to the arctic regions of the Yen-e-say in East Siberia, and gave a rapid sketch of his journey. Amongst the eggs which he exhibited were those of Turdus pallens, Phylloscopus borealis, P. tristis, P. superciliosus, Accentor mon-tanellus, Emberiza, pusilla, Charadrius longipes, Tringa minuta, Anser ruficollis, and Cggnus bewickii. Some of the most interesting skins were those of birds in immature plumage, e. g. :-young in down of Charadrius longipes ; young in first plumage of Turdus iliacus, T. pilaris, T. fuscatus, T. atri-gularis, T. pallens, Emberiza pusilla, and Anthus richardi. He also exhibited young in first plumage of Locustella certhiola (Pallas, nee Middendorff), and pointed out the identity of this species with L. rubescens of Blyth, L. dorice of Salvadori, and probably with L. minor of David and Oustalet. He also pointed out that L. ochotensis of Middendorff (of which he had examined the types in the St. Petersburg Museum) was not a good species, being the young in second plumage of L. certhiola (Midd. nee Pall.). Of this species he exhibited two specimens of the adult-one from Kamchatka, the type of L. subcerthiola of Swinhoe, and a second skin from Urup Isla, south of Kamchatka,- and a specimen of the young in second plumage, the type of Arun-dinax blakistoni of Swinhoe (Ibis, 1876, p. 332, pl. viii. fig. 1). Mr. Seebohm also stated that an examination of the skins of certain Acrocephali in the St.-Petersburg Museum, collected by Prjevalsky in the valley of the Ussuri, in Swinhoe's collection, obtained by him in China, and in the collections of Lord Tweeddale and the British Museum, obtained by Wallace and others in the islands of the Malay archipelago, had convinced him that Acrocephalus fasciolatus of Gray and Calamoherpe subfiavescens of Elliot were identical, and were the young in second plumage of Acrocephalus insularis of Wallace, of which Calamoherpe fumigata of Swinhoe is a synonym. He also exhibited a series of hybrids between Corvus corone and C. comix, which habitually interbreed in the valley of the Yen-e-say. |