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5. Crossopus (part) Wagler, 1832. Hydrosorex (part) Du- 

 vernoy, 1835. Pinalia, Gray, MSS. 



Head elongate. Ears hid in the fur, valvular. Tail elongate, 

 squarish, vvith short close pressed, rigid hairs, grooved, and \vith a 

 ro\v of long bristles beneath the tip. Hind feet ciliated \vith mo- 

 bile bristles. Cutting teeth g, the two upper centrai strong, eąually 

 nicked ; hinder upper rapidly decreasing in size : the two centrai 

 lower cutting teeth flattened, sharp edged, and toothed above. 



Crossopus Dauhentonii, ( White-bellied water shrew). 



Sorexfudiens,Pa\\ai? Duvernoy. S. carinatus, Uerm. GeofF. 

 A. M. — (S", canaliculatus, Lynge. S. Daubentonii, Erxl. 



Europe, France. Brit. Mus. 



Brehm has described what he considers three German species 

 allied to S. fodiens under the name of S. amphihius, S. natans, 

 and *S'. stagnalis; Wagler, two others which he calls C. musculus 

 and C. psilurus. Duvernoy refers to Hydrosorex, Sorex tetrago- 

 nurus, Hermann and Geoff. Ann. Mus. xvii. t. 2. f. 3, \vhich being 

 a land shrevv, I have referred to the genus Corsira ; see also Sorex 

 fimbripes, Bachman. 



A small coUection of birds from Erzeroura in Persia, recently 

 presented to the Society by Keith E. Abbott, Esq., Corr. Mem., was 

 brought before the notice of the meeting, accompanied with the 

 following observations by Mr. Gould : — 



" Of the nine specimens composing this collection, I find eight 

 are distinct species, two of which are knovvn to inhabit Britain, and 

 six, including these two, belong to the Fauna of Europe ; the re- 

 maining two I have no hesitation in considering as undescribed 

 species, though referable to European types, being closely allied to 

 the Fringilla nivalis and Alaiida alpestris of authors. The great 

 length of wing, sąuare tail, and other prominent characters pre- 

 sented by Fringilla nivalis vvould seem to indicate the propriety of 

 separating it from the ręst of the Fringillidce, in which case the 

 present species vvill probably be placed along \vith it in a distinct 

 genus, vvhich it appears to nie would exhibit the šame relation to 

 Fringilla, as Plectroplianes does to Emheriza. 



" The Lark is a second example of that singular form distin- 

 guished by lengthened tufts on each side of the head resembling 

 horns, and for \vhich Al. penicillata will, perhaps, serve as an ap- 

 propriate specific designation. 



" The remaining species are Lanius minor, Phcenicura ruticilla, 

 Alauda calandra, Al. rupestris, Pyrgita petronia, Linaria canna- 

 bina. 



" I vvould observe that the collection though small is a most in- 

 teresting one, since it adds to ornithology t\vo new examples of 

 forms, previously known to us by only solitary species ; and I would 

 remark that coUections from this part of the world are aln-.ost sure to 

 be productive of highly interesting results." 



The tvvo new species noticed by Mr. Gould in the above collec- 

 tion were characterised as 



Alauda Penicillata. Al. fronte, mento, auricularibus, abdo- 

 mine, pectore alisgue subtus albis ; fascid super fronfem , peni- 



