108 Zoological Collections. Vertebrata. 



A species of Hawfinch, according accurately with the characters of that 

 northern form, was also described : — 



Coccothraustes icterioides. Mas. Cocc. capite, jugulo, dorso medio, alis, 

 femorum tectricibus, caudaque atris ; nucha, uropygio, corporeque sub- 

 tus luteis. {Figured in No. I. ) 

 Fcem. Olivaceo-cana, uropygio abdomineque lutescentibus ; remigibus 



rectricibusque atris. 

 As also a small Owl, very nearly allied to the Noctua passerina and 

 Tengmalmi of Europe : — 

 Noctua cuculo'ides. Noct. brunneo-fusca ; capite, dorso, tectricibus alarum, 

 corporeque subtus albo graciliter fasciatis ; remigibus externd albo 

 maculatis ; rectricibus utrinque fasciis albis quinque notatis ; gula alba. 

 {Figured in No. I.) 

 Among the forms peculiar to India, was observed a second species of the 

 singular group which contains the Horned Pheasant, or the Meleagris Satyra 

 of Linnaeus, and which has been lately separated by M. Cuvier, under the 

 name of Tragopan. Its specific characters are : — 



Tragopan Hastingsii. Trag. dorso brunneo-fusco undulato, abdomine in- 

 tense rubro, amborum plumis ad apicem nigris in medio albo guttatis ; 

 crista crissoque atris, ilia ad apicem coccinea, hoc albo maculato ; collo 

 posteriori coccineo ; thorace aurantio ; regione circumoculari nuda, 

 carunculisque pendentibus luteis j cauda atra, lutescenti-albo undulata. 

 {Figured in No. I.) • '" '' ■ 



A species of true PAeasan^, which seenjs' xoiigtfebieen indicated by former 

 writers from incomplete descriptions or drawings, but nev^ Vo htve been 

 accurately characterized, was also exhibited and named. ' - \ >. ' 



Phasianus albo-cristatus. Mas. Phas. supra ater, viridi riltore splendens; 

 dorso imo albo-fasciato ; cristse plumis albis, elongatis, deorsim recum- 

 bentibus, basi subfuscis ; remigibus corporeque inferiori fuscis ; pectoris 

 plumis lanceolatis albescentibus. 

 Fcem. Corpore supra cristaque breviori fuscescenti-brunneis ; abdomine 

 pallidiore ; gula, plumarumque corporis apicibus et rhachibus albescen- 

 tibus ; rectricibus lateralibus atris, mediis brunneis albescenti undulatis. 

 A third species was likewise added from the collection to the group of 

 Enicurus of M. Temminck, which has hitherto been considered as limited 

 in range to the Indian Archipelago. The following are its characters : — 

 Enicurus macvlatus. En. capite, collo, dorso superiori, pectore, ptilis, 

 remigibus secundariis, caudaque intense atris ; frontis nota lata, maculis 

 till/ *^onfertis nuchse et sparsis dorsi, pteromatibus, dorso imo, abdomine, 

 •j^^ rectricibus lateralibus, mediarumque apicibus albis ; remigibus pri- 

 ^j^,/ mariis fuscis ; rostro nigro ; pedibus albescentibus. 

 .'^., Dtatura En. specioso sequalis. 



Colymbus glacialis. — About the beginning of May last, a specimen of the 

 great northern Diver was killed in Upper Engadin, Canton of Grisons, 

 Switzerland. It weighed seven pounds. This bird sometimes removes 

 to great distances during winter JRev. Encyc. Sept. 1830. 



Zarus HcematorynchuSfYig. (Zool. Joum.) Jard. and Selby, (Illustr. Ornith.) 

 — Dr Traill of Liverpool has communicated, through our coadjutor, Mr 

 Johnston, his opinion that the Larus hcematorynchus of Jardine and Selby's 

 Illustrations is merely a better representation of the bird previously figured 

 and described by himself in the fourth volume of the Memoirs of the 

 "Wernerian Society, for 1821-22, under the name of Scoresby's gull. The 

 species appear to be very closely allied, if not identical. The specimens 

 belonging to the Zoological Society have more white on the scapulars 

 and secondaries, and are rather less in size ; but to judge from Dr Traill's 



