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Chamą sordida. Chamą testd albidd suhroseo varid vel totd sub- 

 rosed, creberrimi striatd, hinc et hinc foliaced ; intus albd, 

 limbo crenulato. 

 Hab. in America Centrali. (Isle of Cuna.) 



This species, which varies much according to its age, but never 

 appears to grow to a large size, was dredged up from a depth of 

 eighteen fathoms, attached to rocks. 01d specimens have the lower 

 vai ve often very much produced. 



A Note by Mr. George Bennett on the Nasal Gland of the wan- 

 dering Albatross, Diomedea esulans, Linn., was read. It described in 

 detail the gland situated in that bird above the orbit, as observed by 

 the Avriter in 1832, and accorded with the account of it published by 

 him in the Appendlx to his ' Wanderings in New South Wales,' &c. 

 It was illustrated by a dravi^ing of his dissection of the head of an 

 Albatross, made specially with the view of tracing the excretory duct 

 of the gland, which he succeeded in doing for nearly tvi^o inches 

 under the external plate of the upper mandible, in a direction towards 

 the nostrils, but inclining slightly upwards, until he lošt sight of it 

 among the cellular substance of the bone. The writer notices the 

 occurrence of a corresponding structure in other Birds, particularly 

 among the Natatores, and refers to Miiller for an account of the 

 gland as it exists, in or near the orbit, in species of every order of 

 Avės. 



A specimen was exhibited of a Kangaroo, recently brought from 

 New HoUand, by Capt. Sir W. Edward Parry, R.N., and presented 

 by him to the Society. 



Mr. Bennett called the attention of the Meeting to it as repre- 

 senting a species not hitherto described, and distinguishable by its 

 paler colour, whlch is generally of a slaty grey ; by the vi^hiteness of 

 its tail throughout the greater part of the length of that organ ; by 

 the comparative length of the tail, •vvhich is here longer than the 

 body, whereas in the ordinary greater Kangaroo, Macropus mujor, 

 Shavv', it is shorter ; by the comparative nakedness of the ears ; by 

 the great extent of the naked muzzle ; and by a broad vrhite strijie 

 along each cheek. He stated it to be his intention to describe it in 

 detail under the name of 



Macropus Parryi. Macr. rhinario lato ; auriculis elongatis nu- 



diusciilis ; caudd corpore sublongiore, pilis rigidis brevibus inaim- 



bentibus vestitd : notao griseo ; gastrceo pallido ; fascid genarum, 



cauddgue pro maximd parte, albis, hdc ad apicem nigrd. 



Long. tot. a rostro ad caudse apicem 5 ped. 4 poli. ; capitis, 6 poli. ; 



auricula, 4; tarsi postici, ad unguis longioris apicem, 10 i-; caudce, 



2 ped. 6 poli. 



In a Note from Sir Edward Parry, which was read, it is stated 

 that the animal in question is known to the natives in the neighbour- 

 hood of Port Stephens (lat. 32° S.) by the name of IVol/aroo. This 

 individual had been in his possession in New South Wales for two 

 years previously to his embarkation for England, and was aliovved to 



