PROCEEDINGS 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 9, 1844. 



Rev. John Barlow. M.A., F.R.S.. Sec. R.I., in the Chair. 



A letter was read from Richard Hill, Esq., Spanish Town, Jamaica 

 (Corr. Memb.), accompanied by two Birds' Skins, which he presented 

 to the Society, one of wbich Mr. Gould pronounced to be the Euro- 

 pean Shoveller, Rhynchaspis, in a peculiar statė of plumage, which 

 it only assumes for about two months in the year ; the other was the 

 Fringilla Canariensis. 



A communication was read from Dr. Templeton, Royal Artillery, 

 Colombo, Ceylon, Corr. Mem., accompanied by drawings of a species 

 of Monkey which he conceived to be new. Mr. Waterhouse recog- 

 nized it as the Semnopithecus Leucoprymnus Cephalopterus, described 

 already by Mr. Bennet in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' 

 as Semnopithecus Nestor. 



At the reąuest of the Chairman, Mr. Gould called the attention 

 of the Meeting to a new species of Bird from Western Australia, the 

 habits of which he described thus : — The bird is an inhabitant of the 

 olose undervvood of the country, never making its appearance in the 

 open plains or woods, thus rendering it a matter of difficulty to pro- 

 cure a specimen ; the only means of securing it being to lie concealed 

 in the thicket until it hops in sight, within two or three yards of the 

 observer. 



The great peculiarity which distinguishes it from all others of the 

 Sylviada, and marks it at once as a new genus and species, is the 

 totai absence of the vibrissse or bristles at the base of the mandibles. 

 From this fact, and its note being the loudest of all the inhabitants 

 of the grove, Mr. Gould proposed the name of Atriekia clamosa. 



Genus Atrichia. 



Gen. Char. — Rietus omninb vibrissis carens. Rostrum seąuė longum 

 atque caput, ad latera compressum, mandibul?e superioris apice 

 distinctė denticulato, gonyde a rietu acclivi exinde rostri lineam 



Nos. CXXXI. & CXXXII. — PROcEF.niNGs of the Zool. Soc. 



