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tMs genus to be found within British waters would be ultimately 

 found to be much more numerous than had been hitherto sus- 

 pected. From the materials at present at his command, he had 

 already been able to distinguish what he believed would turn out to 

 be four new species of the non-migratory group of true Salmo, be- 

 sides identifying several others heretofore imperfectly distinguished. 

 Dr. Giinther requested the assistance of the Fellows of the Society 

 and their friends in furnishing him with series of specimens of our 

 native salmons and trouts from every part of the British Islands, 

 stating that in this difficult group of fishes no certain conclusions 

 could be arrived at without a large number of specimens for 

 comparison. — Mr. A. Newton exhibited a specimen of the Carolina 

 Crake {JPorzana Carolina), stated to have been recently obtained on 

 the Kennett, near Newbury, being the first recorded instance of the 

 occurrence of this bird in this country. Mr. Newton also exhibited 

 and made some remarks upon three bones of a large species of Dodo 

 (Didus), recently disinterred by his brother, Mr. E. Newton (Corr. 

 Mem.), from a cave in the island of Eodriguez. — Dr. Gray gave a 

 notice of the skull of a new species of Bush- Goat, proposed to be 

 called Cephaloplms longiceps, which had been sent to the British 

 Museum by Mr, Du Chaillu. — Dr. P. P. Carpenter communicated 

 the diagnoses of some new forms of moUusks from the Vancouver 

 district of AVestern America. — A letter was read addressed to the 

 Secretary by Professor J. J. Bianconi, of Bologna, relating to the 

 systematic position of the extinct bird of Madagascar, JEpyornis 

 maxima, which he was of opinion should be referred to the Vid- 

 turiJcB. — Mr. Gould exhibited and pointed out the characters of two 

 new species of Australian Birds {Artamus oiielanops and Malurus 

 leiiconotus) , discovered during the recent expeditions into the interior 

 of that country. — Mr. Fraser read a list of a collection of shells re- 

 cently made by Mr. R. Swinhoe, F.Z.S., in Formosa, and forwarded 

 by that gentleman to Mr. Cuming's collection. 



February 2Sth, 1865. 



Mr. F. Day read the second part of a Memoir on the Fishes of 

 Cochin on the Malabar coast of India. In this and a former com- 

 munication on the same subject Mr. Day had enumerated, as ob- 

 tained by himself in this locality, 210 species of fishes, about one- 



