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dedly intermediate, exhibiting characters belonging to both. The 

 head, neck, and breast were of a ricli dark iiiaroon colour, the feathers 

 on the breast showing the darker crescentic tips ; the iipper part of 

 the tarsi were covered with feathers ; the back and m ings mottled 

 blackish gray, likę that of a young Black Cock after his first moult, 

 but with some indications of brown ; the feathers of the tail ratlier 

 short, but straight, pointed, graduated, and pheasant-like. Mr. Yar- 

 rel also remarked that this bird more closely resembled the Hybrid 

 discovered by Gilbert White than any of the jirevious specimens 

 which he had exaniined. 



Mr. Goiild then brought before the notice of the Meeting a valu- 

 able collection of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, recently pre- 

 sented to the Society's Museum, by James Farell, Esq., consisting of 

 114 specimens, among •vvhich he characterised the following new 

 species. 



Athene erythroptekl'S. Ath. disco faciali, capite corporeque li- 

 neis fuscis et fulvescenti-albis, alternate fasciatis ; latej-ibus gula, 

 femoribus crissoque cinerescenti-albis ; ^j?7'?«ffr//s secondariisqtte 

 rufis et fuscis fasciis distinctis, latioribus quam corjioris ; vmidd 

 caryophillttccd fasciis ancjustis albis crehre notatd ; rostro j)cdi- 

 busque jlavescenti-olivaceis . 



Long. tot. 9į unc. ; alce, 4| ; cauda, 3 ; tarsi, lį. 



Obs. Nearly allied to but less in size than Athene cuculoides (Noctua 

 cuculoides, Proc. of Comm. Sci. and Corr. of Zool. Soc, Part I.) 



TuRDUS UNicoLOE. Turd. cincreus ; abdomine mcdio, crissoque al- 

 bis ; hunieris subtiis rufs ; rostro pedibusque Uvido-fuscis. 



Long. tot. 9į unc. ; rostri, 1 ; aJcc, 3;} ; caudm, 3t] ; tarsi, 1^. 



Obs. Size of the Common Thrush. The young differs in having 

 the gray strongly tinged with bro\vnish olive, and the thi'oat grayish 

 white, bounded down each side with spots of reddish brown. 



Oreocincla parvirostris, Or. capite, nuchd, pectore, lateribus 

 corporeque supra olivaceo-fuscis ; singuUs plumis verstis apicem 

 nitide cervino lavatis, et nigro-fusco late marginatis ; priinariis 

 obscure fuscis, pogo7iiis exter>iis nitide cervino marginatis, pogoniis 

 internis ad bases cervino-albis ; tectricibus majoribus alarum ob- 

 scure cervinis; aid spuriosd codem colore externe marginatd; caudd 

 fuscd margine subfusco, apiceque cinerescenti-albo ; gula, abdo- 

 mine medio, uropygio, crissoque albis ; rostro pedibusque corneo- 

 fuscis. 



Long. tot. 10 unc; rostri, 1 ; ala, 5^; caudte, 4; tarsi, 1^. 



Obs. This species has all the characters of the Oreocincla varia and 

 O. IVkiteii, but may be readily distinguished from them, by its much 

 smaller size and its very diminutive bill. 



CiNCLiDiA. Genus novum. 

 Rostrum caput longitudine seąuans, leviter arcuatum, ad ai)icem 

 emai-ginatum ad latera compressum ; nai-es basales. laterales, in 



