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of the lamented decease of the Secretary, E, T. Bennett, Esq., the 

 usual routine of scientific business was suspended. 



September 13, 1836. — A communication was read from J. B. 

 Harvey, Esq., of Teignmouth, a Corresponding Member of the So- 

 ciety, on the occurrence of four specimens of the Velella limbosa of 

 Lamarck, which were found on the beach at Teignmouth after a 

 continuation of southerly winds and smooth water. 



A specimen was forwarded for the Society, and representations of 

 it in four different points of view accompanied the communication. 



Mr. Vigors called the attention of the meeting to a Bird, present- 

 ing a singular form among the Tinamous, which he had exhibited at 

 one of the evening meetings in the year 1832, but which, from ac- 

 cidental circumstances, had not been characterized in the Proceed- 

 ings. The birds of this group, which forms an immediate connect- 

 ing link between the Tinamous and the Bustards, were first observed 

 by Mr. Pentland on a high elevation in the Anlies, and the specimen 

 before the meeting was brought by that gentleman to this country 

 and presented to the Society- Mr. Vigors described in detail the 

 characters of the genus, to which he assigned the name of Tinamotis, 

 and also pointed out the specific characters of the bird, to which he 

 had on a former occasion given the name of Pentlandii, in honour of 

 the distinguished traveller who first discovered the group. 



Tinamotis. 



Rostrum forte, subrectum, Otidis rostra persimile ; culmine piano. 



AlcB mediocres, rotundatse; remigihus prima et septimafere sequali- 

 bus, brevissimis, tertia et quarttl longissimis. 



Pedes tridactyli ; tarsis sublongis fortibus ; acrotarsiis reticulatis 

 squamis inferioribus grandibus ; digitis longitudine mediocribus, me- 

 dio cseteris, quse sunt fer^ aequales, longiore, omnibus membrana 

 utrinque marginatis ; acropodiis scutellatis, squamis maximis ; un- 

 guihus grandibus, planis, dispansis. 



Cauda brevis, subrotundata. 



Tinamotis Pentlandii. Tin. corpore cinereo-hrunneo sordidoque 

 fulvo fasciato, capite colloque similiter striatis ; crisso femori- 

 busque rufis ; mento albescente. 



Plumulse capitis colli ventrisc^Q magis albido, dorsi caudaque ma- 

 gis fulvo notatse ; narum notis maculis simulantibus. Longitudo cor- 

 poris, 15; ala, a carpo ad apicem remigis 3ti3e, 10; rostri adfrontem, 

 1^, ad rictum, 1| ; tarsi, 2; digitorum, unguibus inclusis, medii, 1^, 

 extemorum, 1^. 



Mr. Vigors took the same opportunity of describing and naming 

 two Parrots in the Society's Collection, one of which, now alive in 

 the Menagerie, distinguished by a brilliant purple plumage over the 

 head, nape, and breast, and which came from South America, he 

 characterized under the name of Psittacus augustus ; the second, of 

 which two specimens had been procured from the late Rev. Lans- 

 down Guilding's collection, received from the Island of St. Vincent, 

 but the precise locality of which was not known, he described by 

 the name of Psittacus Guildingii. 



Mr. Gould, at the request of the Chairman, exhibited to the 

 Third Series. Vol. 10. No. 61. April 1837. 2 P 



