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There \vas no cause of death appareut. About foiir dozen speci- 

 mens \\e^e then placed in a coliin-shaped box pierced with holes, 

 vphich was to\ved slovvly up the river after the fishing-boat. This 

 attempt also failed : all the fish were dead \vhen the vessel had 

 reached Green\vich. 



" I was told by t'.vo Whitebait fishermen that they had several 

 times phiced these fishes in the wells of their boats, but they inva- 

 riably died when brought high up the river. The fithermen believe 

 a portion of sea water to be absolutely necessary to the existence of 

 this species, and all the circumstances attending this particular fishery 

 appear to prove their opinion to be correct." 



A report by Mr. Yarrell on the morbid appearances observed in 

 the examination of the Society's Reindeer, was read. It is as 

 folio \v s : 



" Ou opening the body and removing the viscera, the lungs ap- 

 peared highly inflamed, of a dark purple colour ; and on cutting into 

 their substance, the cells contained matter. The small intestines 

 also bore marks of inflanimation, but in a much less degree : the 

 mesenterlc glands were diseased, but not to the extent that might 

 have been expected in an animal that had been many years i n an 

 artificial statė. The external surface of the neck and head exhi- 

 bited a high degree of vascularity, and the animal appeared to have 

 been under the influence of that periodical determination of blood 

 to the head, which is knovvn to cccur in all deer at the annual pro- 

 duetion of ne\v horns. As far as the brain could be examined by 

 the occipital foramen, both the substance and its investing mem- 

 branes were also inflamed ; but I have no doubt the primary cause 

 of death vvas the inflammation of the lungs." 



Severai new species of birds belonging to the collection brought 

 home from the Straits of Magellan by Captain King \vere exhibited. 

 In the absence of that gentleman, the foUovving species were pointed 

 out by Mr. Vigors, which are thus characterized in Captain King's 

 M SS. 



TuRuus Magellanicus. Turd. corpore supra grisescenti-olivaceo, 

 smbtus pallidenifescenti ; capite supra, remigibus, cauddquefusco- 

 alris ; guld albd, fusco-atro lineatd. 

 Habitat in Fretu Magellanico. 



PsiTTACARA LEPTORH VNCHA. Ps'itt. vividis ; frojite, strtgd per 

 oculos, cauddgue rujis ; capite nigro, abdomine imo rufo, varie- 

 gatis ; mandibuld superiori elongatd, graciUimd. 

 Statura Psitt. Lichtenšteinu aequalis. 

 Habitat in insul^ Chiloe. 



Pigus sielanocephalus. Pic. capite corporeųue svpra nigris, 

 hoc aJbo maculato ; pectore abdominecue albis, illo albo lineato, 

 hoc albo fasciato . 

 Longitudo 6 vel 7 uncias circiter. 

 Habitat in Fretu Magellanico et insula Chiloe. 



