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Show 480 MONS. C. DODE ON ANIMALS FROM AMOOR LAND. [May 16, nensis) of the same islands. Both these beautiful species are new and welcome additions to the Society's extensive collection of living Psittacidee. A paper was read by Dr. P. Martin Duncan, M.B. Lond., F.R.S., F.G.S., Professor of Geology to King's College, London, &c, entitled " A Description of the Madreporaria (Stony Corals) dredged up during the expedition of H.M.S. 'Porcupine' in 1869 and 1870. This paper, which was communicated to the Society by Prof. Huxley, will be printed in the Society's ** Transactions.' An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Dr. R. A. Philippi, C.M.Z.S., Director of the National Museum of Santiago, dated Santiago, March 28th. In reply to inquiries of Mr. Sclater, Dr. Philippi stated that no Tortoise whatever had yet been found in Chili, and that the Tortoises forwarded to the Society from Santiago, upon which Testudo chilensis of Dr. Gray had been founded, had been, as already anticipated by Mr. Sclater (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 667, and Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vol. vi. p. 470), collected by Mr. Weisshaupt in the vicinity of Mendoza, Argentine Republic. Under these circumstances Mr. Sclater observed that the correct name of this Tortoise would be Testudo argentina, as suggested by him in the above-mentioned article in the 'Annals of Natural History.' Monsieur Charles Dode, of St. Petersburg, exhibited specimens of some remarkable animals that he had collected during his recent travels in the Amour country, among which were particularly noticed specimens of the Long-haired Tiger (Felis tigris, var. amurensis), and of the Ounce (Felis uncia). M. Dode also exhibited four specimens of the Red-breasted Goose (Bernicla ruficollis) from Astrabad, on the borders of the Caspian Sea, and examples of some beautiful new species of birds recently discovered in Turkestan, the most noticeable of which were Turdus mystacinus, Passer ammodendri, and Pyrrhula incarnata. M. Dode made the following remarks on these specimens :- FELIS TIGRIS, var. AMURENSIS. Cette espece feline qui habite sur les bords du fl. Amour et du fl. Oussouri presente quelques differences avec le Felis tigris bengalensis ; poils plus longs, couleur moins foncee, bandes noires moins prononcees. Sans etre tres-commun, on le rencontre assez frequemment soit dans les vastes forets vierges qui bordent le fleuve, soit dans les grands roseaux des bords des lacs. Cette espece feline, qui est propre aux tropiques, n'emigre pas et supporte tres-bien les vingt et vingt-cinq degres de froid que ces contrees ont a supporter pendant deux a trois mois et quelquefois plus. Les conditions d'habitat semblent aussi avoir eu une influence tres-grande sur les mceurs de ce felin |