502 Zoological Proceedings of Societies!^ ^ 



single specim/en deposited in the P^is Museum has furnished the only 

 records known. '^ 



A description of fhe plumage, and the measurements of various parts, 

 are given in detail ; and the paper concludes with a list of the more re- 

 cent additions to British Ornithology, accompanied by references to the 

 authorJties from whom the first notices of these addenda have emanated. '■ 



JVov. 4, — A paper.was read, entitled Description of a new species of 

 Phalangista: % Thomas Bell, Es(f.7 F. R. & L.*^, \^_ 



In this the authour describes from two living specimens in the*fk)sses- 

 sion of John Morgan, Esq., F. L. S., a species closely alUed to the 

 Phal, nana of GeofF.'^ He designates it as the Phal. gliriformis, S^al. 

 dorso rufo-cinerea, gula fulva, macula post aurem utrinque alba : aunbus 

 nudis. In the last section of the character will be found its principal 

 distinction from the species formerly described. A detailed description 

 of it is ^en, and the authour enters fully into an account of its habits, 

 as observed in a state of captivity, which correspond very nearly wii^ ^ 

 those of the Dormouse, Myomis avellanarius. ^ 4" 



jVoK 18j^A paper was read entitled a Catalogue of the Land and 

 Fresh-water Shells found in the neighbourhood of Swansea : h\] X\€l. 

 Jeffreys, £sq., in a letter addressed to L. W. Dillwynn, Esq. 



Dec. 2. — The reading of the above paper was concluded. ^ 



A paper was read Onmri undescribed species q^Pheasant : by Mr. 

 Benjamin Leadbeater. v, 



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\^ This bird, which is named by the authour Phasianus AmhersticB, as ^ 

 token of respect to the distinguished lady by whom it was first brought 

 to England, is a native of Cochin-China, and in general form approaches 

 the Golden Pheasant... Its markings and meeisuremen^are fully described 

 by Mr. Leadbeater. ' '1* 



Dec, 16.— -A Paper was read, entitled Observations on seme species of 

 the genera Tetrao and Ortyx^ nativm^ of Jforth Am^ica; with descrip- 

 tions of four new species of the former, and two of the latter genus : 

 by David Douglas, F.L.S., &c. 



The characters of these new species have already been given in our 

 Analytical Notice of the Transactions of the Linneam Society, at 

 page 490. ' ^ ^ * 



Feb. 3, 1829. — Some Observations on^e Common Bat of Permanty 



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