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September 24, 1833. 



WilHam Yarrell, Esq., in the Chair. 



A collection of skins of Birds, sixty-four in number, formed in 

 the Himalayan Mountains, and presented to the Society by Lady 

 William Bentinck, vvas exhibited. It included several species ap- 

 parently neiv to science, and vvas particularly rich in the interesting 

 Pheasants of the Himalaya. The collection was remarkable on 

 account of the fine condition of the specimens, which generally sur- 

 passed in beauty those previously contained in the Society's Mu- 



A series of eighty skins oi Birds, selected from a collection formed 

 in India by H. B. Hillier, Esq., and presented by that gentleman to 

 the Society, was exhibited. It comprised specimens of many spe- 

 cies in fine or interesting plumage. 



Mr. Bennett called the attention of the Meeting to a Monkey which 

 had been for some time living ai the Society's Gardens, and which, 

 from a comparison of the figures and descriptions of recent authors, 

 he had regarded as entirely new, untii Mr. Ogilby pointed out to 

 him its identity with the Malbrouck of Buffon, a very difFerent animai 

 from that figured under the šame name by M. Frederic Cuvier. The 

 Simia Faunus, Linn., to which Buffon referred his Malbrouck, is wholly 

 founded on a figure given by Clusius in his ' Exotica,' which repre- 

 sents, if correctiy drawn, a species nearly related to the Simia Diana, 

 Linn. (not F. Cuvier) j and the Simia Cynosuriis, Scop., with vvhich 

 M.Geoffroy and others have since identified it, is so imperfectly figured 

 and described as to apply vvith almost eąual justice to any of the re- 

 lated species. It became necessary therefore to give a new name to 

 the true Malbrouck ; vvhich, as its characters appear to have been of 

 late completely misunderstood, even in France, seemed also to require 

 a new description to assist in its recognition. BufFon's figure, and the 

 accompanying description by Daubenton, were taken from a female ; 

 the Society's specimen is a malė. 



Cercopithecus TEPHROPS. Cerc. suprd, Jusco-virescens, infrd, 



albidus; artubus externe grisescentibus ; Jacie pallide carned, 



naso, genis, labiorumąue marginibus pilis brevibus Juliginosis 



conspersis. 



The colour of the upper surface resembles that of the Green Mon^ 



key, Cerc. Sabceus, Geoff., having the separate hairs ringed with black 



and yellovv ; on the outsides of the legs it has raore ofagreyish hue, 



the lighter rings on the hairs having little of the yellovv tinge. The 



under surface is nearly of a pure vvhite, and this extends to the in- 



sides of the limbs and to the sides of the neck anteriorly, vvhere the 



