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Stevenson and Don Javier Ovalle, had arrived from Valparaiso; and 
the first division of a collection of Reptiles, indigenous to France, 
had been received from the Muséum d’ Histoire Naturelle at Paris. 
Among the correspondence was a letter from Mr. Drummond Hay, 
Corr. Memb., H.M. Chargé d’ Affaires in Morocco, offering a pair of 
Gazelles (Gazella Cuvieri, Ogilby ?) for the acceptance of the Society, 
and promising to transmit, in the course of the summer, all the spe- 
cies of Reptiles which are found in the neighbourhood of Tangier. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Norice oF TWO EXAMPLES OF THE GENUS GALLUs. By G. 
R. Gray, F.L.S. erc., Senior AssIsTANT IN THE ZOOLO- 
GICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE British Museum. 
(Aves, Pl. VII. VIII.) 
The known interest which the Zoological Society takes in the 
introduction of Gallinaceous Birds has induced me to call the atten- 
tion of the meeting to the following examples, which it is supposed 
may prove species not hitherto noticed, as they exhibit some cha- 
racters in the form and colouring of the hackles which are not found 
in any published descriptions. Thus in the bird figured in pl. 7, 
the hackle feathers are of a broad form, rounded at the apex, with 
the centre of a shining violet, which colour is margined with deep 
blue, broadest at the apex, and then extending in a point on the 
shaft at the top of the feather ; these colours are externally margined 
with fulvous, which is less prominent on the larger feathers near the 
back and sides. The feathers of the back are prolonged and narrow, 
of a black colour, broadly margined with fulvous; the tail-feathers 
are bronzy-black, with the prolonged coverts black, broadly margined 
with violet ; the lesser wing-coverts deep fulvous ; the larger coverts 
violet, narrowly margined with black, and in some cases with fulvous ; 
the quills black, narrowly margined with brownish-white ; and the 
secondaries black, margined with chestnut. The feathers of the 
chest and under parts lengthened and pointed, of a black colour, more 
or less margined with fulvous. 
The comb is large, extending far back, and is irregularly dentated 
on the upper margin; the throat naked and the wattle large and 
pendulous, with a small wattle on each side near the base of the 
lower mandible. 
This fine bird was said to be brought from Batavia, but I regret 
to say its correct history is unknown. It has been thought right to 
name it provisionally Gallus Temminckii, until it may be proved 
otherwise than a species. 
In the Society’s Garden will be seen a living example, which Mr. 
Mitchell has pomted out to me, and which in some respects agrees 
with that described above, except that its comb is not dentated, and 
though the hackles are violet, yet they are narrowly lined down the 
shaft and margined only with black, the end of each feather being 
rather truncated and rounded. The breast and some of the feathers 
of the thigh rufous, and those of the former with a black spot at 
