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bilobed valve which is there rcpresented, though not described in 

 the text J it evidently opposes a too ready egress of the contents 

 of the stomach." 



M r. Vigors exhibited a collection of African Birds which had 

 been presented to the Society by Henry Ellis, Esq., of Portland 

 Place. They consisted of about one hundred and thirty species, 

 many ot them of extreme rarity and value, and a great portion un- 

 known to the cabinets of England. They came immediately frora 

 Algoa Bay ; but were supposed to have been coUected far in the 

 interior of the country. Mr. Vigors expressed his intention of lay- 

 ing before the Committee at an early Meeting, a descriptive cata- 

 logue of the whole collection, as well as whatever particulars he could 

 collect respecting the locality from which it was brought. He named 

 and characterized in the mean time the follovving apparent novelties 

 frotn the Insessorial Birds. 



TuKDUS GUTTATUS. Tufd. supcTui oHvascenti-bruTineus, subtiis sub- 

 rufescenti-albidus ; strigis iribus genarum, gultis rotundis pectoris 

 abdominisgue, teclricumįue alarum 7iotis brunnesr.enli.atris ; tec- 

 tricibus alarum, rectrkibusąue iribus utrinųue lateralibus ad apicem 

 albo notatis. 

 Statura paulo minor quam Turdi iliaci, Linn. 

 Pykrhula albifrons. Pyrr. nigra, capite nuchdąuejerrugineo 



nitore subtinctis ; Jrojite maculuque remigum albis. 

 Longitudo corporis, 7f ; alce, 4 : caudce, 3 j tarsiu f j rostri, f, 



altitudo f. 

 Ploceus gutturalis. Ploc. supra pallidi olivaceo-bninneus ; 

 capite colloque in fronte aurantiacis, corporc subtus aurantiaco- 

 Jtavo ; gula juguloqne nigris, rostro attenuatiore. 

 Longitudo corporis, 6į. 



Ploceus spilonotus. Ploc. capite supr^ corporeųue subtiis atc 

 rantiaco^avis ; gula, jugulo, dorsoque summo nigris, hocjlavo 

 maculato ; uropygiofrisco-lutescenle ; alis cauddųuefrscis, 

 Statura praecedentis ; rostro fortiore. 



Ploceus chrysogaster, Ploc. capite genis corporeque tolo supra 

 saturate castaneo-brunneis ; gulajiavo et brunneo variegata ; cor- 

 pore subtiis aureo-Jlavo. 

 Statura praecedentium ; at rostrum muito validius. 

 Lampromorpha* chalcopepla. Mas. Lamp. supra spleudide 

 viridis^ cupreo nitens ; subtiis alba, lateribus viridi-cupieo frtsda- 

 tis ; strigd in capitis medio, secundd superciliari, alteraąue maxil- 

 lari, maculis tectricum alarum, remigum, rectricumįue, duabus 

 mediis exceptis, albis. 

 Fcem. aut mas jun. ? Lamp. corpore supra metallice viridi ; capite, 



* A group including the shining Cuckoos of Africa, India, and New Hol- 

 land, indicated in the Transactions oj the Linnean Society, vol. xv. p 300. 

 Mr. Vigors expressed his belief of having lately seen a name attached to 

 this group by some modern author ; but he could not call to his recollection 

 the work in which it occurred. 



