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head ; it is principally pale yellow, but a very distinct dorsal 

 brown line extends its entire length ; from this dorsal line a 

 slender line emerges on each side near the head, and passes ob- 

 liquely towards the mesothorax, it then again ascends and re- 

 joins the dorsal line : the mesothorax is brown, with a yellow 

 scutellum, whence a line of the same colour runs to the base of 

 each fore-wing : in front of each fore-wing the mesothorax is pro- 

 duced into a bright yellow point : the metathorax is brown, with 

 the scutellum and a tubercle at the base of each wing yellow: the 

 sides of the meso- and metathorax are variegated with brown and 

 yellow : the abdomen is brown, with yellow margins to the seg- 

 ments : the wings are shining and transparent, with a distinct 

 dark costal line terminating in the stigma: the fore legs are pale : 

 the femora have externally two small, and internally one large 

 brown spot : the tibiae are brown : the middle and hind legs are 

 alternately of a pale ochreous yellow, and a dull smoky brown. 



Inhabits Malabar. Presented by Mr. Walker. 



Art. XLI. — Communications on the Natural Historic of North 

 America. By Edward Doubled ay. 



( Con t hi lied from p. 300.) 

 [Vicinity of :?t. Joliii's Bluff, East Florida.] 



St. Johns Bluf, \6th Jannarif, 1838.— On the 2(1 I strolled 

 along the river to the north : I observed large white and large 

 grey herons, and also small ones of each colour ; I suppose 

 them to be Ardea Herodias, A. Egretta, A. candidissima, and 

 A. ludomciana : in the bushes were mocking-birds, and many 

 little Syhice and Vireos ; in the fields flocks of turtle-doves ; 

 and, sailing over my head, bald eagles, vultures of both species, 

 and hawks, (Goshawks, I believe) : the kill-deer plovers sprang 

 up from the dry commons, and in the swamps were a few long- 

 legged birds, which I suppose to be Totani; swarms of red- 

 winged starlings, and here and there, on the water, a flock of 

 ducks. I shot one or two birds, one a lovely little Cohimba 

 passerina : I am informed this species used to be common in 



