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Leaves unequally pinnate, about two inches long ; leaflets 

 in about six pairs, opposite, linear-lanceolate (half an inch or 

 more in length. 



Peduncles longer than the leaves, angular, minute subulate, 

 bracts about as long as the pedicels, or one-third the length of 

 the calyx ; about nine-flowered, in a close capitate spike ; flow- 

 ers purple, large ; calyx teeth subulate, as long as the tube, 

 lower tooth diverging from the flower nearly to a right-angle, 

 clothed with black hairs. 



Banner oval, emarginate, one-third longer than the wings, 

 the lateral margins recurved below, erect. 



Legumes curved, acuminate and pointed with the persistent 

 style, glal)rous, colored and plane above upon the back, cells 

 somewhat unequal or subtriquetrous, six to eight-seeded cells, 

 or about sixteen-seeded. 



My 7, 1861. 

 President in the Chair. 

 The following paper was read : 



New Californian Animals. By J. G. Cooper, M. D. 



Note. — The animals here described belong to the collection of 

 the State Geological Survey, and brief diagnoses of them are pub- 

 lished with the approval of Prof. Whitney, State Geologist, to se- 

 cure for the survey the priority of description. 



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A. Species neiv to Science. 



The first that I undertake to describe may possibly have been 

 before described from Mexican or South American specimens, but 

 as Mr, Cassin, of Philadelphia, is unable to identify it with any of 

 them, 1 venture to name it : 



Athene ivhitneyi — Whitney's Owl. 



Spec. char. — Above light brownish gray, thickly spotted with 

 angular pale brown dots, the most densely on head, but those on 

 back largest ; back also somewhat barred with waving lines of the 

 same color. A concealed white collar on back of neck, forming a 

 white bar across middle of feathers, which are plumbeous at base 

 like the rest. Quills with three to six spots on each web, those on 

 inner web white, as are those on the outer web of second, third and 



