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Trogon Malabaricus. Trog. caplte, giilture, ]Kctoreque fuU- 

 ginoso-nigris, hoc torqne lato alho ; ventre coccineo ; dorso tectri- 

 cibusque caudce superioribus sordide arenaceo-brunneis ; scapulari' 

 bus tectricibu!>que alce majoribus nigro aTboqiie jiexuos'vni strigatis. 

 Foem. Capite, dorso, gntture, pectoreque sordide brunneis ; ventre 

 luteo ; pectore haud torqiiato; scapularibus nigro brunneoque 

 strigatis. 

 Rostrum nigrum ; mandibidarum basis regioque ophthalmica nuda 

 cceruleae. 

 Long. tot. 11 vel 11-į- unc; alee. 5. 

 Hab. ad littus Malabar dictiitn. 



In both thesebirds the quill-feathers areblack, edged with white; 

 the three outer tail-feathers on each side black at their base and 

 broadly \vhite at their tips ; and the two middle tail-feathers tipped 

 with black, their remaining portion being of a chestnut brown, which 

 in Trog. erythrocephalus is deep, and in Trog. Malabaricus light. 



Trogon klegans. Trog. vertice, genis, gultiireąue nigris ; cervice, 

 dorso, pectoreque metallue aureo-viridibus, hoc postice torque albo 

 cincto ; ventre saturati coccineo ; scapularibus alceąue tectricibus 

 albo nigrescenti-brunncogue minutissime Jiexuosim strigatis, pogo- 

 niis erternis lined albd longitudinali notatis. 

 Foem. Capite, pectore, dorsoque saturate br unnescenli-gr išeis ; tor- 



que albo obsoleto ; ventre quam in mari pallidiore. 

 Rostrum saturat^ aurantio-luteum. 

 Long. tot. 12 unc. ; alce, 5 ; caudce, 7. 

 Hab. apud Guatimala, in Me.\ico. 



The tail is considerably lengthened in the malė, and its four middle 

 feathers are bronzed green on the upper surface, and deeply marked 

 with black at the tip ; the three outer feathers are vvhite at the tip, 

 and barred to a great extent on their outer edges with alternate lines 

 of black and vvhite, a marking \vhich appears also, though less e.\ten- 

 sively, on their inner edges, the remainder being black : in some spe- 

 cimens this marking of the tail is reduced to an irregular and minute 

 sort of dotting, in place of the bars. In the female the middle tail- 

 feathers are of a dull chestnut, tipped with black, and the three outer 

 feathers much resemble those of the malė, but are less decidedly dot- 

 ted, assuming rather a freckled appcarance. 



Mr. Bennett briefly recapitulated the facts and reasonings which 

 have from time to time been brought before the Society on the sub- 

 ject of the abdominal glands of the Monotremata, regarded by Meckel 

 and by Mr. Owen as mammary, and by M. Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire 

 as connected with a peculiar function, to \vhich, however, differ- 

 ent results have been attributed by that learned zoologist at various 

 times. The object of the recapitulation was to introduce an abstract 

 of a recent Memoir by M. Geoffroy-Saint- Hilaire, " On thestructure 

 and use of the Monotrematic glands, and particularly on those glands 

 in the Cetacea." In this Memoir the author regards the mammary 

 glands of the Cetacea, so analogous in structure to those of Orniiho- 



