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French) . The skin is tender and closely attached to the body as 

 in our pigeons, and the feathers have the same peculiar structure 

 of which I spoke before under the Cuckoos. 



67. Columba livia var. domestica. Tame doves were kept by 

 the natives in most villages in great numbers. They were chiefly 

 of the race common also with us, which most resembles wild 

 pigeons ; but as they live more at liberty, without being confined 

 in winter, they acquire their natural blue colour more frequently 

 than with us, with two black bands on the wings. I saw some 

 among them which had the back white, which I never saw among 

 tame pigeons in Sweden. This species is perhaps hardly to be 

 found strictly wild in Bengal, which country is wholly destitute 

 of cliffs and mountains, but it appeared to me that a great por- 

 tion of them were more or less in a wild state, which seems also 

 to be often the case in South Europe. 



68. Columba . Several species of pigeon were mentioned 



as being found wild in the country. Among them is one which 

 the Europeans called Ring -dove, and which was asserted to be 

 precisely the same as the European species, but I failed in seeing 

 any such. It was said to arrive at certain seasons in great flocks, 

 and then to depart again. 



Another small green dove was stated to frequent certain places 

 all the year. It was said to be shy, and difficult to see in the 

 trees. Some which I saw in cages were said to be of this spe- 

 cies; it was Columba super ciliaris, W&gl. (C. indica, auct.), which 

 is rather larger than a thrush, reddish gray, with green wings 

 and back, a gray head, with white eyebrows and a cross-band on 

 the sides of the neck, red feet and beak. 



[To be continued.] 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 

 Oct. 13, 1846. — William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



" Descriptions of thirteen new species of Brachiopoda." By G. B. 

 Sowerby, F.L.S. 



Terebratula nigricans. Ter . testd antice rotundatd, postice acumU 

 natd, tenuiusculd, nigricante; valvis incequalibus , radiatim costatis, 

 costis rotundatis; lined marginal! rectiusculd; valvd dorsali sub- 

 trigond, depressiusculd, rotundatd, lateribus posticis declivibus ; 

 foramine magno, hand integro, quadrat o ; ared cardinali magnd, 

 planiusculd, lateribus rotundatis; deltidiis angustis ad latera 

 foraminis coalescentibus ; valvd ventrali depressd, transversim 



