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I wouM rather consider this as a variety of P. loricatus, R. ; but 

 as Mr. Cuming, who has a particular interest for this genus, said 

 that he was convinced it was a distiuct species, I give tlie description 

 ofit. 



/ 9. Paludomtjs SwAiNSONi. Testą ovata, solida, olivacea, costis 

 nigris spiralibus ornata, ohsolete spiraliter et longitudinaliter 

 striata ; spira exserta ; anfractus convexi, ad suturam nigri- 

 cantem depressi ; apertura ovata, albida, obsolete dentata, in- 

 terdum fusco-maculata. 



Long. 25, lat. 23 ; apert. long. 21, lat. 12 mill. 



AUied to pietus ; but differs in having black ribs. 



/ 10. Paludomus NODULOsus. Testū oblongo-ovata,lcete oUvacea, 

 longitudinaliter nigro fulgurata ; spira exserta ; anfractus 

 costis tuberculosis spiraliter cingulati, sutura crenulata ; aper- 

 tura subcircularis, nigra, intus albida, lineis nigris pellueen- 

 tibus. 

 Long. 27, lat. 21 ; apert. long. 20, lat. 16^ mill. 



3. List of Birds collected by Mr. Thomas Bridges, Cor- 



RESPONDING MeMBER OF THE SOCIETY, IN THE VaLLEY 



OF San Jose, in the State of California. By Philip 

 LuTLEY Sclater, M.A., F.L.S. etc. 



Mr. Bridges has reąuested me to bring before the notice of the 

 Society a senes of birds which he collected in the Valley of San Josd, 

 at the southern extreinity of the Bay of San Fraucisco. There are 

 examples only of 33 species, but many of these are interesting — the 

 W. American fomis being rery little known in Europe, although 

 the Museums in the United States are well supplied with specimens 

 resulting from the many recent expeditions into the west. The only 

 list of Californian birds at all complete is that pubhshed by Dr. 

 Gambel in the first volume of the second series of the Journal of the 

 Academy of Natūrai Sciences of Philadelphia. M. Cassin's beau- 

 tifid work on the 'Birds of California, Oregon, &c.' has been unfor- 

 tunately discontinued for the present, at the termination of the first 

 volume. Had that been brought to a conclusion, there vvould have 

 been much less still wanting to be known conceming the omithology 

 of the -vrestern regions of N. America. 



Mr. Bridges' coUection eontains example3 of the follovring spe- 

 cies : — 



1. ACCIPITER FUSCUS (Gm.). 



2. TiNNUNCULUS SPARVERIUS (L.). 



3. CiRCUS HTJDSONIUS (L.). 



