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country, lat. 28° south. Found in small troops of eight or ten 
together, feeding amongst the thickets. 
Mr. Gray has named this species after my father, George Fife 
Angas, Esq., of South Australia, who has always taken a lively in- 
terest in my travels and researches in natural history. I may add, 
that the preceding notes were drawn up from recently-killed speci- 
mens, which I in vain attempted to purchase from the Boers who 
possessed them. 
2. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF Popica. 
By G. R. Gray, Ese., F.L.S. ere. 
(Aves, pl. 4.) 
The bird now laid before the Meeting forms a second species of 
the genus Podica, Less., the type of which, P. senegalensis, is peculiar 
to Western Africa. It was obtained from Malacca, and thus extends 
the range of this singular group, Heliornine, to a third quarter of 
the globe. The only species known until of late years, which is the 
type of the subfamily (Heliornis surinamensis), exists in the warmer 
parts of the American continent. 
Popica PERSONATA, 0. Sp. 
Sp. ch.—Upper parts olive-brown; top of the head, lores, cheeks 
and jugulum, deep black; back of neck bluish olive; a short white 
streak borders the black from the posterior angle of the eye; the 
lower surface white; breast tinged with brown; the side-feathers 
faintly, and the under tail-coverts deeply, barred with brown; the 
quills and tail deep brown; bill yellow; the feet lead-colour, and 
the membrane that borders the toes yellow. 
Total length, 20 inches ; bill, 2 inches and 2 lines; wing, 10 inches ; 
tarsi, 1 inch and 10 lines. 
It differs from the typical Podica in having a portion of the lores 
naked, in the greater breadth of the tail-feathers, and in their being 
rather rigid. 
The only specimen I have seen, from which this description and the 
drawing have been made, was presented to the British Museum by 
the Right Hon. the Earl of Ellenborough. 
3. DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF THE GENUS Cyprama. 
By J. S. Gasxorn, Esa. 
1. Cyprza Tuersires (High-backed Cowrie). Cyp. testd ovatd, 
gibbosd, dorso elevato, basi lata plandque, saturate rufescente-fuscd ; 
antice posticeque depressiusculd, aperturd angustatd, postice re- 
curvd ; dentibus albis, distinctis, labii externi validis, columellari 
minis prominentibus ; sulco columellari antice profundo, lato ; 
extremitatibus valde productis, canali antico pleno. 
Shell ovate, very gibbous and high-backed, of a very dark, reddish- 
brown colour, not uniformly equal in intensity; a curved whitish 
mark exists over both the anterior and the posterior extremities, at 
which places there is a depression, as though the mantle had not 
deposited any substance there after it had begun to secrete the 
