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and in the former characters to exhibit a manifest approach to the 

 Nuicrackers, or the genus Nucifraga of Brisson. 



A new species of this latter European form ■n'as also observed in 

 the collection ; a second species being thus added to a group \vhich 

 had hitherto been supposed to have been limited to one. In the 

 shape of the bill, Avhich \vas some\vhat shorter and stouter at the 

 base than in the European species, it indicated an approach to the 

 Jai/s. Its characters were as follow : 



NuciFHAGA HEMispiLA. Nuc. castaneo-hrunjieū ; capite siibtus, 



colio anteriori, dorso, pectoreque albo maculatis ; capite summo, 



alis, rectricibusąue intense brunneis ; his, ditabus mediis exceptis, 



ad apicem late albis. 



The tv;o follo\ving species of Woodpeclier, \vhich approached in 



size and colouring most closely to the European greeii IVoodpecker, 



\vere also described. 



Picus occiPiTALis. Mas. Pic. viridis, vropygio lutescenti; fronte 

 coccineo ; vertice, strigd latd occipitali ad nucham ejctendente, al- 

 terdque vtrinque sub octilos postrictali, atris ; remigibus rec- 

 tricibusgue fusco atris, harum duabus mediis pallido-fusco striatis, 

 illis externe albo maculatis ; guld genisgue canis. 

 Foem. Fronte atrd albo lineatd. 



Picus SQUAJiATUs. Pic. suprū viridis, vropygio sublutescenti ; 

 guld jugulogue viridi-canis ; capite coccineo; strigd svperocu- 

 lari, alterd suboculari, abdominegue viridi-albis, hoc atro squa- 

 mato ; strigd stiperciliari alterdgue titringue mentali atris ; remi- 

 gibus rectricibusque fusco-atris, illis externe, his vtringue albo 

 maculatis. 

 A species of Hawfinch, according accurately \vith the characters 

 of that northern form, was also described. 



CoccoTHRAusTES icTERioiDES. Mas. Cocc. cupits, jvgulo, dorso 

 viedio, alis, femorum tectricibus, cauddgue atris ; nuchd, uropy- 

 gio, corporegue subtus luteis. 

 Fcem. Otivacco-cana, vropygio abdominegue lutescentibus ; remigibvs 



rectricibusgue atris. 

 As also a small Owl, very nearly allied to the NoctucE passe- 

 rina and Tengmalmi of Europe. 



NocTUA cucuLoiDES. Noct. Irunneo-fuscū ; capite, dorso, tectri- 

 cibus alarum, corporegue subtus albo graciliter fasciatis ; remi- 

 gibus externe albo maculatis ; rectricibus utrinque fasciis albis 

 quinque notatis ; guld albd. 

 Among the forms peculiar to India \vas observed a second spe- 

 cies of the singular group which contains the Horned Pheasant, or 

 the Meleagris Satyra of Linnseus, and which has been lately sepa- 

 rated by M. Cuvier under the name of Tragopan. Its specific cha- 

 racters are : 



Tkagopan Hastingsii. Trag. dorso brvnneo-fvsco undtilato, 

 abdomine intense rubro, amborum plumis ad apicem nigris in 

 medio albo guttatis ; cristd crissogue atris, illd ad apicem coccined, 

 hoc albo maculato ; colio posteriori coccineo ; thorace aurantio ; 

 regione circumoculari nudd, carunculisgue pendentibus luteis ; 

 caudd atrd, lutescenti -albo undulatd. 



