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pears to be very great in every respect, as, independently of its ranid 

 and sustained flight, it grasps the small twigs, flowerV&c unon 

 whjch ,t ahghts with great firmness, and if wo"unded cl ngs t^ thm 

 with the utmost tenacty : it appears to be most active in?he morT 

 nig and evemng. and to pass the middle of the day under the Tade 

 of the hiek lea y branches. Occasionally it occurs^in such numbers 

 that fifty or sixty may be seen on a single tree. When capTuVed 

 lt so speedily becomes tame, that it win feed from VhP Kl T 

 mouth within half an hpur. 'successfnrin ke^pin^one a ive du'^ 



?or Xr. 7'^-'T"-'^' 'V f "^^ ^^S attached to his breast^but o? 

 for three days dunng which it readily fed from a small l.ottie fiS 

 with a syrup of brown sugar and water, Mr. Gould detem ued to 

 attempt the bnngmgofsomeliving examples to England, Tn^hich 

 he succeeded, but unhappily they did not long survivc their arrival 

 in London and died on the second day: had^they lived, it wasT 

 mtention to have sent them to the Society's Gardens;where thev 

 rS ?W v'^'"' ^""^ ^^''' '^i'''' «^ great attraetion. Mr GouJ 

 added, that he was certainthat they mi|ht be readily brough t to thb 

 country; that they wou]d live in the gardens at least dudn" the 

 months of summer, and that the captains of any of the great teamers 

 now voyagmg between England and America wo«ld wmingly render 

 the assistance requisite to efFect this desirable object. ^ 



M ^""l^i f hibited a highly interesting species of Ceriornis 



Z^hiČ ^^, ^Tvi '"v^" ^""^'^'^^^ of Dr. Cabot of Boston, who 

 with the greatest hberahty, permitted him to bring it to Eno-land 

 %lw r-P""'' ""' ^.o™Pf ™on and deseription. The appearance of 

 his bird is very smgular, and the uniform buff coloiring of the 

 breast would įad to the supposition that it is merely a varie y of 

 one or o her of the previously known species of the genus • but the 

 greater length of the tarsi, and the iell-defined nfarkSgs of the 

 back forbid such a conclusion. For this new bird, foming the 

 fourth species of the genus, Mr. Gould proposed the name of 



Ceriornis Caboti. 



clestnut, buffy white, and black, the latter colouring assuminį the 

 foim of a large circular spot at the tip of each feather ; this buff 

 mark greatly mcreasmg m size on the scapularies, and the greater 

 wmg- and tail-coverts; primaries and tail feathers very dark brown 

 crossed with toothed markings of buff niottled with black • breast 

 and under surface deep sandy buff stained with red, and black on 

 the llanks, under tail-coverts and thighs 



toe'^a'ndnSf2V^^^ ^^''^^ ^"^^^ 10 ; tail. U; tarsi, 31 ; middle 



Hab. China. 



RemarL—This species is more nearly allied to C. Temmincki than 

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