!S^ Mr. G. R.Waterhouse on some New species 



one s-een. The great body of them had previously crossed the Me- 

 diterranean. On the 29th of that month I sprung a brace near 

 Navarino. Mr, Wilkinson, jun. of Syra, son of the well-known 

 and highly esteemed British consul in that island, informed me that 

 quails are not seen on their autumnal migration at Syra when the 

 wind is southerly, but when it is north-east they alight in great num- 

 bers from the 10th to the 30th of September. Their coming is al- 

 ways announced by the call of the heron, which accompanies them 

 throughout the period of their migration. This is described to be 

 ** reddish-brown on the back and cream-coloured elsewhere," and 

 is probably the Ardea comata, or Squacco heron. They never re- 

 main longer than one day. Mr. Wilkinson has been told by friends 

 resident at Alexandria, that the earliest arrivaLof the quail there is 

 about the 20th of September. 



Little Bustard, Otis Tetrax, Linn. — In the * Proceed- 

 ings of the Zoological Society of London for 1835 ' (p. 79)^ I 

 noticed, on the authority of Mr. W. S. Wall, an intelligent 

 bird-preserver, and well acquainted with Bewick's faithful 

 portraits of British birds, that a little bustard, sent to him by 

 Mr. Reside to be stuffed, had been shot by that gentleman in 

 the county of Wicklow on the 23rd of August 1833, and that 

 another was seen at the same time. I subsequently learned 

 from Mr. Haffield of Dublin, who was present on the occa- 

 sion, that they were seen, associated with golden plover, in 

 the bog of Killough, adjoining Powerscourt demesne, and 

 about five miles from the sea. They proved to be less wary 

 than the plover. The survivor remained for some time about 

 the locality after its companion w^as killed. The singularity 

 of its cry was particularly noticed by my informant*. 



XXXII. — Descriptions of three new species of the Coleopterous 

 genus Gyriosomus, collected in Chile by T. Bridges^ Esq. By 

 G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., Assistant Secretary and Curator to 

 the Zoological Society, &c. 



Section HETEROMERA. 



Family NycTELiDiE. 

 Genus Gyriosomus, Guerin. 



Gyriosomus Bridgesii. Gyr. ater ; elytris sutura elevata, supra lineis 

 irregularibus (plerumque longitudinalibus), anticeque maculis par- 

 vulis, albis, ornatis. Long. ^\ — 10 lin. ; lat. 5 — 6| lin. 

 Corpus ovatum, convexum. 



Found in the vicinity of the city of Coquimbo, Chile. 

 This species greatly resembles the Gyriosomus Hopei, but is 



smaller, the thorax is shorter and broader, and the legs are more 



* The Great Bustard, Otis Tarda, Linn., was enumerated by Smith 

 (1749) as one of the birds of the county Cork. It is long since extinct. 



