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Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



MYOPHONUS HORSFIELDII. Myoph. cccrulcscenti-ater, fronte, 

 humeris, marglnibmque plumarum pectoris splendide cceruleis. 



Statura Myoph. cyanei, Horsf. 



PHASIANUS STACEII. Phas. stramineo-albus, supra frequenter, 

 subtus parce nigrofasciatus, dorso abdomineque imis ruj'escenti- 

 bus ; capite cristato fusco ; cauda Jasciis latis nigris, ad basin 

 interne riifis, ornata. 



Longitude corporis ab apice rostri ad apicem caudae, 3 pedes 

 4^- uncias. 



OTIS NIGRICEPS. Ot. corpore supra pallide badio, ntfo-brunneo 



fraciliter undidato ; cotlo, maculis parcis alarum, abdomineque al- 

 ls ; capite cristato, tectricibus alarum exterioribus, remigibus, no- 

 taque grandi pectorali nigris. 



Longitude corporis ab apice rostri ad apicem caudae, pedes 4 ; 

 altitude, 4-f. 



The Chairman also directed the attention of the Committee to a 

 remarkable deficiency observable in some of the groups of the Psit- 

 tacidce, viz. the absence of the osjiircatorium. This deficiency he had 

 observed in the osteology of the Psittacus mitratus, the Platycercus 

 eximius,and the Psittacula galgula; skeletons of the two last of which 

 species were exhibited. He observed that this extraordinary defi- 

 ciency evinced the approaching affinity of that group of birds to 

 the RasoreS) one of the most conspicuous groups of which, the typi- 

 cal Struthionidce , exhibited a like deficiency, indicating a corre- 

 sponding failure in the powers of flight. 



XL. Intelligence and Miscellaneous Articles. 



PARHELIA, &C. LATELY SEEN AT BEDFORD. 



THE following remarkable phenomena presented themselves at 

 Bedford on February 1st, 1831, at 4 P.M. 



A B represents the western horizon, C D the prime vertical, S a 

 segment of the sun's disk appearing above a dark cirrostratus cloud, 

 and covered with thin vapour, which gave it the appearance of highly 



burnished 



