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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 s/?ows«,Linn., 

 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. 



Phcenicura cceruleocephala. Phcen. atra, abdomine strigd- 

 que alarum longitudinali albis ; capite pallide cceruleo. 



Statura Phcen. communis. 



Phcenicura leucocephala. Phcen. corpor e apicequecaudce atris ; 

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



Statura Phcen. rubeculce. 



Phcenicura rubeculoi'des. Phcen. capite, collo, corporeque su- 

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

 pectore rufo. 



Statura Phcen. cceruleocephalce. 



Phcenicura fuliginosa. Phcen. corpore fuliginoso-plumbeo ; 

 caudd rufd. 



Statura paullo major quam preecedens. 



Emberiza cristata. Mas. Emb. capite cristato corporeque 

 atris ; alis cauddque rufis. 



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

 mine imo pallidiori ; alis cauddque rufescentibus, fusco tinctis. 



Statura Carduelis communis. 



Lamprotornis spilopterus. Mas. Lamp, supra plumbeo-ca- 

 nus,plumis ad apicemfusco marginatis ; subtusalbus, rufotinctus; 

 uropygio rufescenti ; remigibus atris viridi splendentibus, ma- 

 cula alba ; caudd brunned ; gula intense rufd. 



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



Statura Lamp, cantoris. 



Myophonus Horsfieldii. Myoph. coerulescenti-ater, Jronte, 

 humeris, marginibusque plumarum pectoris splendide cceruleis. 



Statura Myoph. cyanei, Horsf. 



Phasianus Staceii. Phas. stramineo-albus, supra frequenter, 

 subtus parce nigro fasciatus, dorso abdomineque imis rufescenti- 

 bus ; capite cristato fusco ; caudd fasciis latis nigris, ad basin 

 interne rufis, ornatd. 



Longitudo corporis ab apice rostri ad apicem caudae, 3 pedes 

 4kf uncias. 



Otis nigriceps. Ot. corpore supra pallide badio, rifo-brunneo 

 graciliter undulato ; collo, maculis parcis alarum, abdomineque al- 

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

 tdque grandi pectorali nigris. 



Longitudo corporis ab apice rostri ad apicem cauda?, pedes 4 ; 

 latitudo, -H. 



