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Hab. Mediterranean Sea. 
Cab. Gaskoin, Saul, &e. 
This species differs from Oyprea Cribraria of Linn. in the general 
conformation of the shell, being more cylindrical, in its short, obtuse 
extremities, its wide aperture, particularly anteriorly, the large dot- 
tings on the margin, the character of the teeth, the internal colour of 
the shell, &c. 
Cypr2z# PuLicis vARieTAS. Cyp. testd longiore, dentibus nu- 
merosioribus minutioribusque, supra labrum circa viginti-novem, 
supra columellam circa viginti-tribus ; canali postico denticu- 
lato. 
Shell longer in form, of a light reddish-brown colour, aperture 
narrower and straighter, teeth finer and much more numerous than 
the ordinary form, being about twenty-nine on the lip, while the pro- 
totype has about nineteen, and on the columella side, about twenty- 
three, against from fourteen to seventeen; posterior channel more or 
less denticulated. 
Hab. if 
Cab. Cuming, Gaskoin. 
2. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF NUTCRACKER. 
By Joun Goutp, F.R.S. erc. 
NucIFRAGA MULTIPUNCTATA, Gould. 
Crown of the head and nape of the neck brownish black ; feathers 
of the face, sides of the neck, back, chest and abdomen brownish 
black, with a broad and conspicuous mark of dull white down the 
centre ; wings glossy greenish black, the coverts and secondaries with 
a lengthened triangular mark of white at the tip, a faint trace of a 
similar mark appearing on the tips of the primaries ; tail glossy green- 
ish black, the two centre feathers slightly, the next on each side more 
largely, and the remaining three extensively tipped with white, the 
extent of the white increasing as the feathers recede from the centre ; 
under tail-coverts white ; upper tail-coverts and thighs striated with 
white. 
Total length, 14} inches ; bill, 13; wing, 83; tail, 7; tarsi, 15. 
This species exceeds in size both the N. caryocatactes and N. he- 
mispila, but at the same time has a smaller and more slender bill than 
either of those birds; it also differs from both of them in its length- 
ened and cuneiform tail; it has a greater quantity of white on the 
apical portion of the tail-feathers than the European species, but less 
than is found in the NV. hemispila; the white markings of the back 
and the entire under surface are also much larger and more numerous 
than in either of the other species, and are most remarkably developed 
on the scapularies. 
The only specimen I have seen of this fine species is in the Museum 
of the Philosophical Society at York ; its precise habitat is unknown, 
but as other species which were certainly from Simla in India accom- 
panied it, we may reasonably conclude it was from that country. 
