Meteorological Observations, 79 



Malacocichla Dryas. 



Head, cheeks and ear-coverts jet-black, the feathers of the crown 

 somewhat lengthened ; back, wings and tail dark greenish-olive ; 

 centre of the throat and under surface pale buffy-yellow, blending 

 into the olive of the upper surface on the flanks ; the feathers of the 

 breast and upper part of the abdomen tipped with olive ; bill and 

 eyelash orange-red; legs and feet orange-yellow. 



Total length 7 inches ; bill | ; wing 3f ; tail 2| ; tarsi 1 ^ ; middle 

 toe and nail 1 -^^ ; hind-toe and nail f . 



Hab. Guatemala. 



Remark. — In size this bird is rather smaller than the European 

 Redwing, Turdus Iliacus. — From the Zoological Proceedings, Nov. 

 28, 1854. 



The late Mr. Newport. 



A plain but handsome monument, of Aberdeen granite, has recently 

 been placed in the cemetery of Kensal Green, to the memory of the 

 late George Newport, the eminent naturalist and physiologist. The 

 inscription on the stone, which we give below, implies strongly, if it 

 does not formally express, the merits of the deceased. The fact of 

 having a public monument raised to him by those who knew him 

 best, his friends and fellow-workers, is an eulogy of a kind which can 

 never be called in question, though his own scientific writings con- 

 stitute his best and most enduring epitaph. 



Inscription. 

 Sacred to the Memory of George Newport, F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 F.R.C.S. &c. &c. He was born in Canterbury on the 4th day of 

 July, 1803, and died in London on the 7th day of April, 1854. 

 This monument was erected by Fellows of the Royal and Linnaean 

 Societies to commemorate their regret for the loss of a much-esteemed 

 colleague, and to testify their sense of the great services rendered by 

 him to Science. 



meteorological observations for NOVEMBER 1855. * 



Chiswick. — November 1. Cloudy : frosty at night. 2. Overcast and cold : heavy 

 rain. 3. Showeiy. 4. Fine. 5. Clear : dense fog : very fine : rain. 6. Fine. 

 7. Cloudy. 8. Constant heavy rain. 9. Slight fog : fine. 10. Foggy : very fine : 

 foggy at night. 11. Very fine : cloudy. 12. Hazy. 13. Overcast. 14. Fine: 

 frosty at night. 15. Frosty and foggy : very fine : dense fog at night. 16. Dense 

 fog. 17. Fine: cloudy: rain. 18. Hazy : cloudy : rain. 19. Rain. 20. Drizzly: 

 fine. 21. Overcast: rain. 22. Drizzly: overcast : fine. 23. Cloudy. 24, Cloudy 

 and cold : shovrery. 25. Cloudy: clear: sharp frost at night. 26. Very fine. 

 27. Overcast : slight rain. 28. Overcast : cloudy : lunar rainbow at 10 p.m. 29. 

 Overcast : cloudy. 30. Overcast : very fine. 



Mean temperature of the month 40°*84 



Mean temperature of Nov. 1854 39-35 



Mean temperature of Nov. for the last twenty-nine years ... 42 '95 



Average amount of rain in Nov 2'347inches. 



Boston. — Nov. 1. Fine. 2. Fine : rain p.m. 3. Cloudy: rain p.m. 4. Fine: 

 rain a.m. 5. Cloudy : rain p.m. 6. Rain a.m. 7. Cloudy. 8. Cloudy : rain 

 A.M.andp.M. 9. Fine. 10. Cloudy. 11. Fine. 12— 15. Cloudy. 16, 17. Fine. 

 18, 19. Cloudy : rain p.m. 20. Cloudy. 21. Cloudy : rain p.m. 22, 23. Cloudy : 

 rain a.m. and p.m. 24. Cloudy : rain p.m. 25. Cloudy. 26. Fine. 27. Cloudy : 

 rain p.m. 28. Cloudy : rain a.m. and p.m. 29. Cloudy : rain p.m. 30. Cloudy. 



* The observations by the Rev. C. Clouston of Sandwich Manse, Orkney, 

 have not been received. 



