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OKTYX NEOXENUS. Ort. brunneus, supra fusco rufoque undulatim 

 variegatus, subtus pallido-rufo maculatus ; gents lateribusque 

 colli rujescentibus ; caudu brunneo-Jusco rufoque undulatim 

 Jasciatd ; cristd brevi brunnea. 



Statura minor quam Ort. californicus . 



ORTYX AFFINIS. Ort. pallide brunneus ; dorso alisquefusco pdli- 



doque rufo variegatis ; caudd pallescenti-brunnea, fusco al~ 



boque undulatim Jasciatd ; capite, collo, peclore, abdomineque 



riJL/escentibus, hoc albo guttato, illis albo nigroque variegatis ; 



Jronte apiceque cristce elongate rufo-brunnece albescentibus. 



Statura minor qui\m species praecedens. 



Mr. Vigors proceeded to state, that individuals of four of the 

 above-mentioned species, namely, Ort. virginianus, californicus, 

 neoxenus and Montezumce, had been exhibited in a living state in the 

 Gardens of the Society. Specimens of the former three, he added, 

 were still alive there, having braved the severity of the last winter 

 without any artificial warmth. They were all natives of the northern 

 parts of America. The Ort. virginiajius, he also mentioned, had 

 bred in this country, and had even become naturalized in Suffolk. 



He state A in addition, that Capt. P. P. King, R.N. had pointed 

 out to him, amongst his collection lately brought home from the 

 Straits of Magellan, specimens of a bird which he made no doubt 

 was the same as the Cattle des Isles Malouines of M. Buffon, figured 

 in the " Planches Enluminees " [No. 222.], and which was subse- 

 quently named Perdix Falklandica by Dr. Latham. This bird has 

 been added to the genus Orlyx by modern authors, but erroneously - t 

 as the structure of the wing, in which consists the chief difference 

 between the Ortyx of America and the genus Coturnixor the Quails 

 of the Old World, associates the Magellanic bird more closely with 

 the latter group, than with the birds of its own continent. Mr. Vi- 

 gors mentioned, that the form which characterizes the true Quails 

 extends to Australia, where several species are found. And referring 

 to the deviation in form, which partially separates the South 

 American bird from the allied groups of the same continent, and 

 brings it in contact with those of Australia, and through them 

 with those of the old continent, he dwelt upon the beautiful series 

 of geographical affinity, which in this instance united the zoology 

 of the southern extreme of the New World with that of the nearest 

 portions of the southern hemisphere, in like manner as the zoology 

 of the northern extreme is united with that of the neighbouring 

 continents of Europe and Asia. He pointed out some additional 

 instances, in which the same union might be traced. 



Mr. Owen commenced the reading of a paper On the Anatomy 

 of the Orang Utan (Simia Satyrus, L.)- 



The subject principally referred to was a young male, probably 

 about four years of age, which had recently been presented to the 

 Society by Mr. Swinton of Calcutta ; it reached England in a very 

 debilitated state, and died on the third day after its arrival in Bruton- 

 street. 



The morbid appearances met with in its examination were very 



slight, 



