358 Miscellaneous. 



of observing the matter contained in their intestinal canal, renewed 

 without interruption and always turning red, without his ever having 

 perceived in the water in which the Crustacea lived any trace of co- 

 loured suhstance. Can the red colour which the ingested matter as- 

 sumes in the intestinal canal of the little Crustacea have instantly 

 become developed by the act of digestion ? This would be a new 

 and very curious fact to verify. M. Audouin expressed a wish that 

 M. .Toli, who is favourably situated for varying his experiments, 

 Mould apply himself to the solution of this interesting problem. — 

 Compte Rendu, Nov. 4. p. 570. 



FALCO ELEONOUM. 



M. Gene has read before the Academy of Sciences at Turin, the 

 description of a new species of Falcon, discovered in Sardinia by 

 M. de la Marmora, w T hich has been confounded with the Common 

 Hobby (F. Subbuteo,) but from which it differs in its much stronger 

 form, in the colour of the cere, which is bluish ; by the form of the 

 cutting edges of the mandible, which are not notched between the 

 base and the tooth ; and by the colour of the eggs, which are reddish, 

 spotted and blotched with brown. — Ulnstitut, 7th November. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF MELTPIIAGA. BY M. DUBUS. 



Meliphaga cincta, capite toto, collo, pectoreque nigris ; fasciculo 

 postoculari niveo; fascia pectorali et humeris flavis ; parapteris, 

 tetricibus mediis alarum prioribus et dorso nigris, plumis singu- 

 lis flavo marginatis; posterioribus alarum tetricibus mediis albis, 

 speculum formantibus ; remigibus et rectricibus fusco-nigris, 

 pogoniis externis flavo marginatis ; abdomine pallide brunnes- 

 centi-cano. 

 Hab. New Zealand. 



This species is remarkable from the length of the hairs which 

 clothe the base of the bill and occiput at the origin of the nasal 

 apertures. These hairs are somewhat stiff and extend over three- 

 fourths of the length of the bill, which is slim, slightly curved and 

 flat at its base. The wings are rounded ; the first primary is very 

 short ; the second much shorter than the third, which is nearly equal 

 to the fourth ; the fifth is the longest of all. The tail is square, with 

 feathers terminating in a point. The bill is black and the feet are 

 browm. Entire length 7 inch., length of the bill from the suture to 

 the apex 10 lin., of the tarsus 1 inch, of the middle digit 8 lin. — 

 Bulletin de VAcad. Roy. de Bruxelles, Avril 6, 1839. 



