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šame with pow(lered alum. It shoukl i-emaln in the sun unlil per- 

 feclly dry. 



" In addition to the foregoing description of tlie mode used in 

 this country in dressing skins, as related by the person employed 

 by nie, it may be vvell to observe that the process does not take so 

 long here, as I have often received back skins of the Aoudad and 

 Leopard from the dresser, on the third or fourth, and never ex- 

 ceeding the fifth day, perfeciiy cured. Allovvance has been made 

 by the dresser, in the foregoing description, for the difterence in 

 the climate of London. 



" The skins of smaller animals mušt not be subjected to so length- 

 ened a process, or they vvill become harsh, and the pelt impover- 

 ished. — W, W." 



A brief description was read of a pair of Doves, now living at 

 the Society's Gardens, which liad been pointed out by Mr. Vigors 

 as representatives of a species hitherto undescribed. It may be 

 characterized as follovvs : 



CoLUMBA Princeps, Vig. Col. supra cinerea, subtus alba ; nnchd 

 riįfo-castancd, metallice splendeide, scapulas versiis vinaced ; gut- 

 titre viridi, metallice splendente ; caudd supra cacaoticd, iii/rd 

 pnllidiori. 

 Hah. in Australia. 



This bird cxceeds by one fourth the size of the JVood Pigeon of 

 Europe. Its beaks and legs are crimson, and its irides hazel. 



Dr.Grant exhibited a preparation of ihecioaca of a female Condor, 

 Sarcorhaniphiis Grtjphus, Dum., which recently died at the Society's 

 Gardens. He entered into a series of observations on the subject, 

 demonstrating the diflPerences of structure and appearance existing 

 in its several parts, and the several orifices opening into it, He ad- 

 verted to the imperfect development of the right oviduct and ovary 

 in the class of Birds, and considered it as probably dependenl on 

 the position ofthe aoHa m tliat class. To the position of the aorta 

 in the Mammalia he was also disposed toattribute the inferior power3 

 ofthe left side of the animals composing that class, an inferiority 

 which is very striking in the cranial structure of the Cetacea, to 

 \vhich he had occasion to refer at the lašt Meeting of the Society. 

 He dwelt particularly on the bursa Fubricii, reinnrkably evident in 

 this largc bird, and explained the several uses \vhich had been at- 

 tributed to that organ by its discoverer and by subsequent ana- 

 tomists. With M. Geoiiroy-Saint-Hilaire he regarded it as the 

 analogue of Cowper's glands in the Mammalia, and adduced various 

 rcasons in favour of this view. 



Mr. F. D. Bennett exhibited a dried preparation of the upper 

 larynx and acijoining parts of the Albatross, Diomedca exiilans, Linn., 

 for the purpose of demonstrating the existence in that bird of an 

 epiglottis. 



The rimą glottidts is bounded by tno elevated fleshy lips, which 



