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August 27, 1844. 



Richard C. Griffith, Esq., in the Chair. 



Mr. Fraser read a description of a ne\v species of Crowned Pigeon 

 from Ne\v Guinea, now in the Gardens of the Society. In honour 

 of Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Patroness of the Society, he pro- 

 posed the name of 



LoPHYRUS ViCTORiA*. L. ptUose saturafe cceruleo-grised ; singulis 

 plumis crista apice barbato caruleo, albo marginato ; pectore cas- 

 taneo ; tectricibus alarum majoribus cinereo-cceruleis, castaneo 

 marginatis. 



The general colour of this species is an intense blue-grey, becoming 

 lighter on the head ; the chest is deep chestnut ; the larger -vving- 

 coverts are light blue-grey, tipped Avith dark chestnut; the head is 

 surmounted with a crest, each feather of which is of a similar con- 

 struction as that of Columbus coronatus, but spreading into a spatu- 

 late form at the extremities, of a blue colour, bordered with \vhite ; 

 there is also a dark mark passing through the eye ; irides vermilion. 



In size it is somewhat larger than C. coronatus. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



This lovely species is closely allied to C. coronatus, but difFers from 

 that bird in having terminai points to the crest-feathers, in the darker 

 colouring, in having chestnut on the breast instead of the back and 

 shoulders, and in having the larger \ving-coverts pale blue-grey, ter- 

 minated vith chestnut, in the place of •vvhite, tipped with chestnut. 



" Description of new species of Ranella," by Loveli Reeve, Esq. 



Ranella albivaricosa. Ran. testu oblongo-ovatu, depressiusculd, 

 varicibus tubercuUs subspiiiosis prominentibus armatis ; anfractibits 

 leviter angulatis, tubercuUs subspinosis in/ra angulum biseriatim 

 armatis, transversitn elevato-striatis, inferne liratis, striis liriscue 

 leviter undulatis, subtilissime granulatis ; albd, rufescente-fusco 

 tinctd, varicibus niveis ; aperturd oblongo-ovali, utringue canali- 

 culald, fauce pallide purpurascente ; labro dentato et sulcato. 



Conch. Icon., Ranella, pi. 1. f. 2. 



Murex runa, Linnaeus ; Martini, Conch.. vol. iv. pi. 183. f. 1270-71. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



How comes it to pass that this common and peculiarly character- 

 istic species has escaped the notice of so many good discriminating 

 conchologists \vho have written on the genus ? 



* " Lophijrus, VieilI. (1816); Goura, Steph. (1819); Megapelia, Kaup 

 (183C) ; Plilophijrus, Swains. (1837)." G. R. Gray's • Genera of Birds.' 



