384- Zoological Society, 



dibits cceruleis. Rostrum, guttur, tectrices cauda superiores, orbita- 

 que nuda discolores. 



* Cauda tectricibus superioribus flavis. 



Ramph. erythrorhynchus, Gmel., Cuvieri,Wa,g\.,culminatus, Gould. 

 ** Cauda tectricibus superioribus albis. 



Ramph. Swainsonii, Gould, carinatus, Swains., Toco, Gmel. 

 *** Cauda tectricibus superioribus coccineis. 



Ramph. vitellinus, 111., Ariel, Vig., dicolorus, Linn. 



Genus Pteroglossus, ///. Rostrum magnum. Nares superse, in 

 maxillse basi sitae. Cauda gradata. 



SuprcL viridescentes , uropygio (nisi in perpaucis) discolore ; subths, 

 capite, collo, rostro, orbitisque nudis utplurimum discoloribus ; pe- 

 des coerulei. 



Pter. Aracari, 111., regalis, Licht., castanotis, Gould, bitorqua- 

 tus, Vig., Azarce, Wagl., ulocomus, Gould, hypoglaucus, Gould, 

 Bailloni, Wagl., viridis, 111., inscriptus, Swains., maculirostris, Licht., 

 Culik, Wagl., prasinus, Licht., and sulcatus, Swains. 



The whole of the species characterized above are figured in Mr. 

 Gould's 'Monograph of the Ramphastidae,' which is just completed; 

 and all of them, with the exception of Pteroglossus Azarce, Pter. in- 

 scriptus, and Pter. prasinus, are contained in the Society's collec- 

 tion, and were exhibited to the Meeting. 



July 22. — A letter was read, addressed to Mr. Vigors by B. H. 

 Hodgson, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z.S., and dated Nepal Residency, Fe- 

 bruary 14, 1834'. It referred to various living animals which it is the 

 intention of the writer to forward to Calcutta for transmission to En- 

 gland during the ensuing season. It also referred to a collection of 

 skins of Mammalia and Birds which have already been dispatched 

 by Mr. Hodgson for the Society. Among them are skins of the Chiru 

 Antelope, Antilope Hodgsonii, Abel, male and female ; and the writer 

 refers to these as elucidating the points which had been unascer- 

 tained by him at the time of making to the Society his several pre- 

 vious communications, abstracts of which have been published in 

 the Proceedings of the Committee of Science and Correspondence, 

 Part i. p. 52, and Part ii. p. 14 j and in the Proceedings of the So- 

 ciety, Part i. p. 110. An abstract of part of the letter is given in 

 the Proceedings, No. xix. 



Some extracts were read from a Letter addressed by the Presi- 

 dent, Lord Stanley, to the Secretary, giving an account of the 

 breeding of several Birds in His Lordship's Menagerie at Knowsley. 

 The red Grosbeak, Loxia Cardinalis, Linn., has a nest of three young 

 which are nearly fledged ; and a single young one of the Tovohee 

 Bunting, Emberiza erythrophthalma , Gmel., has been hatched. The 

 Loxia cucullata has this year, as last year also, made a nest and laid 

 one egg ; and the American yellow Bird, Fringilla tristis, Linn., is 

 now sitting. 



The gosling of the Sandwich Island Goose, respecting which 

 a notice from Lord Stanley was read on May 27, "is now 

 fully as large as the parents, and nearly resembles them in plu- 

 mage j the only differences being about the neck, which is more 



