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115. Pelecanus Onocrotalus, Linn. Freąuents the marslies near 

 Smyrna, \vhere it remains during the \vinter. 



*116. Plialacrocorax Carbo, Briss. Abounds in the harbour of Con- 

 stantinople, and roosts on the roofs of the houses. 

 *117. Phalacrocorax pygtnteus, Briss. Shot near Smyrna in winter. 



118. Cygnus Olor, Linn. Visited Smyrna Bay in the winter. 



119. Clangula vufgaris, Leach. Smyrna, during the winter. 



120. Fuligula ferina, Steph. Smyrna, during the winter. 



121. Fuligula cristata, Steph. Smyrna, during the winter. 

 *122. Rhynchapsis clypeata, Shaw. Smyrna, during the \vinter. 



123. Tadorna Vulpanser, Flem. Smyrna, during the winter. 



124. Querquedula acuta, Selby. Smyrna, during the winter. 



125. Anas Boschas, Linn. Smyrna, during the %vinter. 



126. Mareca Penelope, Selby. Smyrna, during the winter. 



127. Tadorna Rutilą, Steph. Frequent in the poultry shops at 

 Smyrna, but owing to the Turkish practice of cutting the throats of 

 birds as soon as shot, I was unable to obtain a perfect specimen. 



128. Querquedula Crecca, Steph. Smyrna, in the winter. 

 *129. Mergus albellus, Linn. Smyrna, in the winter." 



Mr. Strickland also exhibited the skin of a variety of the common 

 Fox, Canis Vulpes, Linn., which occurs near Smyrna: together \vith 

 a specimen of the Lepus hybridus, Pall., from the South of Russia, 

 purchased of a furrier at Rome. 



Also a specimen of an Argonautą, Linn., -vvhich was brought to him 

 in Cephalonia with the animal alive in it. Mr. Strickland stated 

 that he kept it for some hours alive, and when dead it fell out of 

 the shell with its own \veight ; proving that there is no muscular 

 connexion between the animeJ and the shell. In this instance the 

 shell did not contain any ova. 



Mr. Ogilby called the attention of the Society to two Antelopes 

 at present living in the Gardens, which he regarded as the Koba and 

 Kob of Buffon. He expressed hispleasure at haAang it in his power 

 to identify two animals originally described imperfectly, and of which 

 the zoological characters have been hitherto almost unknown ; ob- 

 serving that the re-discovery of an old species was at all times more 

 gratifying to him, and, he considered, more beneficial to the science 

 of zoology, than the original description of tvventy that were new ; 

 because, whilst it eąually added an authentic species to the substan- 

 tive amount of our knowledge, it had the further merit of dispelling 

 the many doubts and surmizes \vhich unavoidably obscured the sub- 

 ject. Mr. Ogilby entered at some length into the identification of 

 these two interesting species, referring to the scanty materials afForded 

 by the original descriptions of BufFon and Daubenton, and pointing 

 out the various other Ruminants with which subseąuent naturalists 

 had confounded them ; at the šame time reserving his more detailed 

 demonstration of this subject, and his descriptions of the animals 

 themselves, for the monograph which he has been long preparing for 

 the Transactions of the Society. Among other errors, he pointed 

 out that the Koba of Pennant {A. Senegalensis) was the Caama ; 



