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February 23, 1836. 

 The Rev. J. Barlow in the Chair. 



Mr. Gould, at the reąuest of the Chairman, exhibited specimens 

 of numerous Birds forming part of the Society's collection ; and di- 

 rected the attention of the Meeting to those which he regarded as 

 the most interesting among them. 



He stated that one of them was especially curious as exhibiting a 

 form of Insessorial Bird, not safely referrible to any known family ; 

 on which account he proposed to consider it as the tjrpe of a group 

 to be designated 



Paradoxornis. 



Rostrum altitudine longitudinem superans, ad basin vibrissis in- 

 structum : mandibuld superiore valdė compressa ; culmine acuto, 

 valdė arcuato ; tomio edentulo, apicem versus valdė incurvo, ad 

 basin producto : mandibuld inferiore ad basin lata, robusta; to- 

 mio emarginato. 



Nares parvse, rotundatse, pone rostrum sitae. 



Alee breves, rotundatse : remigibus 4ta, Stš,, et 6ta longioribus. 



Cauda mediocris, gradata. 



Tarsi robusti, Iseves. 



Pedes magni, subtus lati : digitis magnis ; halluce ungueąue postico 

 maximis. 



Ptilosis ampla, laxa. 



The breadth of the under surfaces of the feet is so great as to in- 

 dicate considerable powers of grasping. 



Pakadoxornis flavirostris. Par. arenaceo-brunneus, subths pal- 

 lidior; capite nuchdque rufo-brunneis ,• auribus partim aterrimis ; 

 facie gutturegue albis nigro variis ; pectore nigro. 



Long. tot. 8 unc; alce, 3-į-; cauda, ^\; tarsi, 1+; hallucis (ar- 

 cuati), -I-. 



Rostrum splendidė aurantiaco-flavum ; pedes coerulescentes. 



Hab. (verosimiliter) in NepaM. 



Mr. Gould regarded another of the Birds exhibited as the repre- 

 sentative of a new type among the Thrushes ; and characterized it as 

 the type of the genus 



ACTINODUHA. 



Rostrum subcompressum, subarcuatum, ad apicem subemargi- 



natum. 

 Nares basales, lineares, operculo magno tectse. 

 Al<e meiles, breviusculse, concavae : remige Ima brevissima, 4t4 



5taquc longioribus. 



