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neatli. The dorsal fin is placed behind the centre of gravity; but 

 not so far behind it as in the common Herring. The number of the 

 fin-rays and of the vertebra differ in the two species as follows : 



D. P. V. A. C. Vertebra;. 



Clup. Harengus 17 . . 14 . . 9 . . 14 . . 20 . . . . 56 

 Clap. Leachii 18 . . 17 . . 9 . . 16 . . 20 . . . . 54 



The new species differs also from the common Herring in flavour, 

 being much more mild. It is now full of roe, while the adult com- 

 mon Herrings ceased spawning in November, and having retired 

 subsequently to the deep waters are not at present to be met with 

 on the southern coast. Mr. Yarrell added, that there was reason to 

 believe that a third species of Herring, of a larger size than either of 

 the others, occurred sometimes on our eastern coast. He also men- 

 tioned that he had obtained last summer from the Thames, the 

 two Shads regarded by M. Cuvier as the Clupea Alosa, Linn., and 

 the Clupeafallax, LaCep. 



Mr. Yarrell stated that he had received a letter from Mr. Dill- 

 wyn, mentioning the capture in Swansea Bay of a specimen of the 

 Labrus maculatus, Bloch being a second instance of the occurrence 

 of this fish on the British coasts within a few weeks. 



Mr. Yarrell also stated that the Summer Duck, Anas sponsa } ~L'mn. 9 

 male and female, had been shot recently near Dorking. The Anas 

 occidua had also occurred in this country : and another American 

 and Northern species of bird, the Alauda alpestris, Linn. 



The Chairman resumed the subject of the Himalayan birds, and 

 exhibited and described the following species. 



PHOENICURA O&RULEOCEPHALA. Phcen. aim, abdomine strigd- 



que alarum longitudinali albis ; capite pallide cceruleo. 

 Statura Phcen. communis. 

 PHCENICURA LEOCOCEPHALA. Phcen. corpor e apiceque caudce atris ; 



abdomine, crisso, uropygio, cauddque rujts ; capite supra albo. 

 Statura Phcen. rubeculce. 



PHCENICURA RUBECULOIDES. Phcen. capite, collo, corporeque su- 

 pra atro-cceruleis, capitis summo splendidiore ; abdomine albo ; 

 pectore rufo. 



Statura Phcen. cceruleocephalce. 

 PHCENICURA FULIGINOSA. Phcen. corpore Juliginoso-plumbeo ; 



caudd rufd. 



Statura paullo major quam praecedens. 

 EMBERIZA CUISTATA. Mas. Emb. capite cristato corporeque 



atris ; alis caudaque rufis. 



Fcem., aut Mas jun.? Capite subcristato corporeque juscis, abdo- 

 mine imo pallidiori ; alis cauddque nifescentibus, Jiisco tinctis. 

 Statura Carduelis communis. 



LAMPROTORNIS SPILOPTERUS. Mas. Lamp, supra plumbeo-ca" 

 nus,plumis ad apicemjusco marginatis ; subtusalbus, nifo tinctus ; 

 uropygio riifescenti ; remigibus atris viridi splendentibus, ma- 

 cula alba ; candd brunnea ; gula intense nifa. 

 Fcem. Supra pallide brunnea, subtus albescens, brunneo tincta. 

 Statura Lamp, cantoris. 



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