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Show 392 MR. E. G. LODER ON BOS AMERICANUS. [Apr. 16, April 16, 1878. E. W. H. Holdsworth, F. Z. S., in the Chair. Mr. Sclater exhibited a typical specimen of the new Fox lately described by Mr. W . T. Blanford (J. A. S. B. xlvi. pt. ii. p. 321) as Vulpes eana, from Baluchistan, which Mr. Blanford had forwarded to him for examination. Mr. Blanford having stated (I. s. c.) that his species appeared to be the same as the small Bushire Fox which in his Zoology of Persia ('Eastern Persia,' vol. ii. p. 41) he had referred with doubt, after examining a young specimen living in the Society's Gardens, to Canis famelicus, Riipp., had requested Mr. Sclater to investigate this point. But the comparison of the skin sent by Mr. Blanford with the animal referred to by him (' List of Vert.' 1877, no. 213 b, p. 62), which was still living in the Society's Gardens, showed that the two animals must belong to quite different species. Mr. Sclater was indebted to Mr. E. R. Alston for the subjoined note upon these differences :- " Blanford's Vulpes eana is quite different from your 0. famelicus at the Gardens, which is much larger and lighter in colour. The fur of the back is dark with light tips, forming a nearly uniform grey grizzled with black only on the shoulders. The nape is like the back ; and the outsides of the ears appear nearly black ; the limbs are fulvous. The difference in size is shown in the following measurements of the skeleton of the specimen of the same animal that died *, taken to correspond with those given by Blanford. inches. Length of skull from occipital crest 5 Length of skull from foramen magnum 5 Length of nasal bones . , 1 Breadth of nasal portion Breadth of frontal region Breadth of brain-case 1 Breadth of zygomatic arches 2 Length of palate 2 Breadth of palate Length of last upper prem. Length of first molar Breadth of first molar Length of humerus 4 Length of radius 5 Length of femur 4 Length of tibia 5 45 0 80 75 75 60 95 60 75 52 40 45 40 0 90 10 Mr. E. G. Loder, F.Z.S., exhibited a mounted head of the peculiar variety of Bos americanus, called the "Rocky-Mountain Bison" 3, remarkable for its soft, dark and long hair on the forehead. 1 N o 213 c of ' List, of Vert.' (1877) p. 62. 2 Allen's Memoir on the American Bison ' pp. 39. 40. |