Mr. W. J. Broderip on the Dodo. 143 



March 22.— Dr. Gray, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Description of a New Species of Tetraogallus. 

 By John Gould, F.R.S. 



Mr. Gould laid upon the table a complete series of all the known 

 species of the genus Tetraogallus, viz. the 

 Tetraogallus Caspius, inhabiting Astrabad, Ghilan, and other parts 



of Persia ; 

 Tetraogallus Himalayensis, inhabiting the Himalaya mountains ; 

 Tetraogallus Altaicus, inhabiting the Altai mountains ; 



and a fine new species, lately sent to the Honourable East India Com- 

 pany, from Thibet, by Captain Strachey, which he described under 

 the name of 



Tetraogallus Tibetanus. 



Crown of the head, cheeks, back and sides of the neck dark slate- 

 grey, washed with buff on the orbits ; ear-coverts huffy white ; chin, 

 front of the throat and chest white; upper surface, wings and tail- 

 coverts freckled buff, grey and black, the feathers of the middle of 

 the back and the wing-coverts broadly edged with pale buff ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts washed with rufous ; primaries greyish brown ; 

 secondaries broadly edged and tipped with white ; breast crossed by 

 a narrow band of grey, freckled with buff and blotched with black ; 

 under surface white ; the feathers of the flanks and lower part of the 

 abdomen narrowly but conspicuously margined with jet-black, form- 

 ing stripes along those parts of the body ; under tail-coverts black, 

 with a broad stripe of white down the centre ; tail very dark brown, 

 inclining to rufous at the tip ; bill and feet orange-red. 



Total length about 15 inches ; bill, 1;^; wing, 9^; tail, 5; tarsi, 2^. 



In the collection of the Honourable East India Company. 



April 12.— John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Notice of an Original Painting, including a Figure of 

 the Dodo, in the Collection of his Grace the Duke 

 OF Northumberland, at Sion House. By W. J. Bro- 

 derip, V.P.Z.S., F.R.S. ETC. 



Professor Owen, at whose disposal the Duke of Northumberland 

 placed the following additional pictorial evidence of the existence of 

 the Dodo in the seventeenth century, has requested me to draw the 

 attention of this Society to the highly interesting picture which the 

 Duke has been so good as to send for the inspection of the Fellows. 

 The size of the picture, which is in the finest preservation, is thirty- 

 two inches by nineteen. It is executed in 

 oil, and bears the following monogram and 

 date. Mr. William Russell, with his usual 

 discernment, detected in this monogram the 

 signatures of Jean Goeimare and Jean David , /^ ^ 



de Heem, and proved the correctness of his y U 2 7 

 judgment by a reference to BruUiot*. Jean 



* Diet, des Monogrammes, 1 partie, pp. 274, 201. 



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