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Show 4 REV. II. B.TRISTRAM ON AQUILA N^EVIOIDKS. [Jan. 13, the snows of Mantchuria and Corea. It did not wander south of Peking, but had occurred near Lake Baikal in Siberia, and, it was said, even in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburg. Mr. Swinhoe regretted that he had not yet succeeded in getting its skull. He added that on a former occasion, some years ago, he had exhibited to the Society a skin of the true Bengal Tiger, which was procured at Amoy. This southern race was found from Canton to Shanghai. Mr. Swinhoe also showed the skin of a Leopard from the province of Kwangtung, very richly coloured and marked, but otherwise agreeing with the Leopard of India; and at the same time laid before the Meeting the skins of an adult and young of the northern Leopard, which Dr. Gray some time since (P. Z. S. 1862, p. 262, PL XXXIII.) had described as new (Leopardus japonensis), from a skin said to have come from Japan. Mr. Swinhoe remarked that this Leopard differed from the southern race also in its long shaggy hair, in the greater amount of white about it, in its bushy tail, its pale colour, and in the confused massing together of the black spots and circles. The young specimen had all the characters of the adult, except that the markings were indistinct and more in the form of spots. Mr. Swinhoe stated that the skin before them was procured at Peking, and that the animal was found wild on the western hills near Peking, and in the country to the north (Mantchuria), extending probably to Corea and the island of Saghalien, and perhaps to Northern Japan. It seemed to him that if the northern Leopard was to be recognized as a distinct race worthy of a specific name, so also should the Tiger be. He would do his best to procure the skull of this race, as also that of the northern Leopard, and expected that the osteological characters would confirm the differences shown by the skins. Mr. Swinhoe also produced the stuffed skin of a Leopardus brachyurus from Formosa, in which the tail was somewhat long, proving that this race is more akin to L. macrocelis than had been anticipated. Mr. Gould exhibited, and made remarks upon, a specimen of the very remarkable new Pigeon which he had recently described under the name Otidiphaps nobilis*, supposed to be from New Guinea. The Rev. H . B. Tristram exhibited two skins oi Aquila ncevioides from India, and made the following remarks on them:- " I have the pleasure to submit for exhibition two specimens of Aquila ncevioides, recently sent to m e from Etawah, N . W . Provinces of India, by m y friend Mr. W . G. Brooks, C E . Mr. Brooks had noticed a peculiarly ruddy Eagle in his neighbourhood for some months before he obtained his first specimen; and the bird not being on any Indian list, or recorded from the East, imagined he had discovered a new species. I heard from him last week that he has just obtained a third specimen near Etawah. * Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. v. p. 62 (1870). |