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I had intended sending it to you alive, but it died a /ew days ago. 

 It was sent to me from the neighbourhood of Erzeroun : I am not 

 aware of there being any in this immediate neighbourhood. It ■was 

 of a particularly savage nature, and although I had kept it for severaI 

 months, I Tvas never able to tame it in the least : itwouldbite when- 

 ever it could." 



" I send you likewise," he adds, " a little Marmot alive in a small 

 cage. It came from Erzeroun, in the neighbourhood of which, I un- 

 derstand, there are vast numbers." It is apparently very nearly al- 

 lied to Citillus concolor, Arctomys concolor, Temm., but may probably, 

 Mr. Bennett remarked, be specifically distinct. It may be charac- 

 terized as foUows : 



Citillus Xanthopeymna. Cit. brunneo-grisescens flavo irroratus, 

 suitūs albescens ; prymnd cauddque rufescenti-fiavidis, hdc rotun- 

 datd, brevi, pilosissimd ; pedibus linedque oculum cingente albis ; 

 auriculis inconspicuis. 



Long. corporis circiter 7 unc. ; caudce, 2. 



The Birds of the collection were brought under the notice of the 

 Meeting, at the reąuest of the Chairman, by Mr. Gould. He ob- 

 served on each of them as regarded its geographical distribution, 

 considering the exhibition as a eontinuation of those of June 24 

 andNovember 25, 1834. (Proceedings, Part II. pp. 50 and 133.) The 

 following species, exhibited on the present occasion, were not com- 

 prised in either of the former collections : and the totai number is 

 thereby raised to sixty-seven species obtained in the neighbourhood 

 of Trebizond, a locaUty which is particularly interesting on account 

 of its intermediate position between "Westem Europe and India. 



Alcedo Ispida, Linn. Inhabiting Europe generaUy, but not seen 

 by Mr. Gould in collections from India or Africa. 



Turdus musicus, Linn. Not pre^•iously obserA-ed out of Europe. 



Curruca atricapilla, Bechst. Inhabiting Europe generally, but not 

 met with in Indian collections. 



Curruca cinerea, Bechst. Similarly circumstanced with the lašt. 



Sylvia Trochilus, Lath. Inhabiting Europe generally, and the 

 western portions of India. 



Regulus cristatus, Cuv. Mr. Gould had not previously seen this 

 bird, except in European collections. 



Motacilla melanocephala. This is considered by some omitholo- 

 gists as a variety of the Mot. flava of continental writers. It is never 

 found in the Avestem or northem parts of Europe. 



Anthvs pratensis, Bechst. Common throughout the whole of 

 Europe, and tolerably so in the western parts of India. 



Phanicura Suecica, Jard. & Selb. Inhabits Europe and India. 

 Only two specimens of it have been taken in England. 



Querquedula Crecca, Steph. Dispersed over the whole of Europe, 

 India, and the northern regions of Africa ; but not found in America. 



Colymbus Arctiais, Linn. Inhabits the whole northern hemisphere. 

 The Trebizond specimen is young. 



Larus canus, Linn. Inhabiting Europe generally. 



