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September 13, 1836. 

 William Yarrell, Esq., in the Chair. 



A communication was read from J. B. Harvey, Esq., of Teign- 

 mouth, a Corresponding Member of the Society, on the occurrence 

 of four specimens of the Velella limhosa of Lamarck, which were 

 found on the beach at Teignmouth after a continuation of southerly 

 Avinds and smooth water. 



A specimen was fonvarded for the Society, and representations of 

 it in four difFerent points of \aew accompanied the communication. 



Mr. Vigors called the attention of the meeting to a Bird, present- 

 ing a singular form among the Tinamous, which he had exhibited at 

 one of the evening meetings in the year 1832, but \vhich, from ac- 

 cidental circumstances, had not been characterized in the Proceed- 

 ings. The birds of this group, which forms an immediate connect- 

 ing link between the Tinamous and the Bustards, were first observed 

 by Mr. Pentland on a high elevation in the Andes, and the specimen 

 before the meeting was brought by that gentleman to this country 

 and presented to the Society. Mr. Vigors described in detail the 

 characters of the genus, to which he assigned the name of Tinamotis, 

 and also pointed out the specific characters of the bird, to which he 

 had on a former occasion given the name of Pentlandii, in honour of 

 the distinguished traveller who first discovered the group. 



Tinamotis. 



Rostrum forte, subrectum, Otidis rostra persimile ; culmine plano. 



Ala mediocres, rotundatse ; remigibus primž et septimiferė sequali- 

 bus, brevissimis, tertia et ąuartd longissimis. 



Pedes tridactyli ; tarsis sublongis fortibus ; acrotarsiis reticulatis 

 sąuamis inferioribus grandibus ; digitis longitudine mediocribus, me- 

 dio cseteris, quae sunt ferė aequales, longiore, omnibus membrana 

 utrinque marginatis ; acropodiis scutellatis, squamis maxirais ; vn- 

 guibus grandibus, planis, dlspansis. 



Cauda brevis, subrotundata. 



Tinamotis Pentlandii. Tin. corpore cinereo-brunneo sordidoque 



fulvo fasciato, capite colloąue similiter striatis ; crisso femori- 



busąue rufis ; mento albescente. 



Plumulse capitis colli ventrisc^t magis albido, dorsi caudceąne raa- 



gis fulvo notatae ; narum notis maculis simulantibus. Longitudo cor- 



poris, 15; alce, acarpo ad apicem remigis 3ti8e, 10; 7-ostri adfrontem, 



1^, ad rictum, 1| ; tarsi, 2 ; digitorum, unguibus inclusis, medii, 1^, 



externorum, l\. 



Mr. Vigors took ths šame opportunity of describing and naming 

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