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In addition to tlie bircis thus kindly placed by Dr. Scouler at ihe 

 disposal of the Society, for exhibition and desciiption, Mr. Vigors 

 exhibited a species of fVoudpecker belonging to the three-toed section 

 of tliat genus, nearly allied to Picus Tiga, Horsf., but difi'ering in its 

 greater size, in niore intenseness of the scavlet colour on the back 

 and wings, and in being marked by a light giay patch on the throat, 

 The species was discovered in the Himalayan Mountains by the Hon. 

 Frederick J. Shore of the East India Company's civil service, and 

 •vvas kindly forvvarded to the Society for exhibition by his biother, the 

 Hon. C. J. Shore. The species was nanied in honour of the disco- 

 verer, whose observations made on the spot on many of the Himalayan 

 birds will form the most valuable part of the letter-press accom- 

 panying the forthcoming work on these birds ; — it was characterized 

 as f'ollovvs : 



Pigus Shorii. Pic. suprčl aurantio-viridis ; capile cristato, dorso 

 (iropygiogue cocchieis ; subtiis atbus ; striga postoculari, altera a 

 rietu extendente, nuctid, reniigibus, rectricibus, noiisque sguamosis 

 pectoris at)domimsque atris ; thorace pailide grisescenti-brunneo. 



Longitudo 12 unc. 



A drawing by Mr. Gould of a species in the Liverpool Museum, 

 which vvas obligingly communicated by Dr. Traill for description, was 

 exhibited, and the bird was characterized as follows : 



Pastok Traillii. Mas. Past. supru subtūsgue brunnescenti-coc- 

 cineus ; capite, colio, nliscjue nigris. 



Foem. suprci brunnea, subtūs albescens, strigis brunneis notata; 

 capite, colio remigibusCjĮue nigris ; cauda brunnescenti-coccined. 



Longitudo 104 unc. 



Mr. Vigors observed that this bird appeared to approach nearer to 

 Pastor than to any other knovvn group ; but that at the šame time it 

 exhibited some modifications of that form. As he had hovvever only 

 a drau'ing of the "bird before him, he refrained from any more detailed 

 observations. He expressed his pleasure in having the opportunitv 

 of inscribing it to an active and scientific naturalist. He begged here 

 also to refer to a bird vvhich he had characterized at a preceding 

 Meeting (Feb. 8), the description of vvhich had been published in the 

 Comaiittee's * Proceedings' (No. III. p. 35.), the Phasianus Staceii. 

 This bird was to be included in the list of those which had been libe- 

 rally communicated by other Institutions for the general benefit of 

 science, having been forwarded for exhibition to the Committee by 

 Philip B. Duncan, Esq. Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, 

 vvhere the specimen is deposited ; to whom, and to whose eąually 

 liberal brother, J. Shute Duncan, Esq., his predecessor in the Mu- 

 seum, every lover of zoology is aware how deeply their science is 

 indebted. The species commemorates the name of Major Stacey of 

 the East India service, who had obtained the bird in the Himalayan 

 range, and had presented it, wi(h several other valuable species, to 

 the Ashmolean Museum. 



Mr. Vigors, in closing this subject, called the attention of the Com- 

 mittee to some errors which had occurred in the lettering of the platės 

 on which the foregoing birds had been lithograpiied. The Picus auri' 



