414 Zoological Society. 



still more disjuncted, Garrulm lanceolatus of Central Asia, so well 

 figured by Gould in his ' Century of Himalayan Birds.' This bird 

 may be appreciated also in its adult state under the name of Garrulus 

 gularis, and in immature plumage under that of Garrulus Vigorsi 

 among the 'Illustrations of Indian Zoology.' Our new species, not- 

 withstanding its stouter and longer feet, its higher and much more 

 compressed bill, and elongated square tail, can by no mea»§iij3ev,ealied 

 aberrant. ,r"offr idt ?! VI 



'G-ArrtjltjsLidthi, Bp. Rnfo-vinaceus ; capite coUoque ex toti^, 



'^'^^'alis, cauddqne, saturate azureis ; fronts lorisque nigncantihus} 



plumis gulce lanceolatis, barbuUs disjunctis, rachidibus albis : 



tectricibus alarum nigro-fasciolatis : remigibus, rectrieibxlsqne 



apicem versus nigricantihus, apice ijiso albo. -:..•. 



Long. 13 poll.; rostr. 1 A poll.; al8e7poll.; caudte .5^; fifS.l^S''^ 



Typicus ; quam^as ad Actinoduram accedens simul et ad CVA'Jjofi 

 picas! 



Rostrum albidura, altum, valde compressum : canda elongata, 

 sequalis. 



Color azureus capitis et colli sensim in rufo-vinaceum dorsi et ab- 

 dominis transiens. JO gljJUHilAO 



Hub. The precise country of this Jay is not known ; but Asiatic 

 as it shows, and all circumstances induce us to believe, it must live 

 in some very remote and unexplored occidental spot of China or Indo- 

 China. The specimen descidbed formed part of Baron van der Ca- 

 pellen's collection, purchased after the death of that Dutch governor 

 of Malasia by Prof, van Lidth de Jeude of Utrecht. 1 detected it last 

 week during a visit I paid to that most splendid perhaps of private 

 collections with my learned friend Schlegel *. 



The tail alone, strongly rounded, would be sufficient to distinguish 

 from our new species, and indeed from all others, 



■ sGarrxjlus lanceolatus, Vig. Cano-vinaceus : pileo genisque 

 I nigria : gula juguloque nigricantibus plumis lanceolatis, rachi- 

 dibus albis : tectricum alarum minorum exterioribus candidis, 

 corpori proximioribus nigerrimis absque fasciis : remigibus rec- 



* We had a double object in view in visiting Utrecht and the munificent Pro- 

 fessor, to whom it is more justice than compliment to dedicate his new Jay : 1. 

 Of admiring the only adult bird in collections of the Japanese Sea-Eagle {Haliae- 

 tus pelagicus, leucopterus aut imperator), whose monstrously powerful bill must 

 really be thunderstriking ! 2. Of ascertaining the supposed new species of Micro- 

 fflosms, of which you may have read in the ' Comptes Rendus ' of the French Aca- 

 demy, and which 1 am delighted to say proves to be a specimen of the oldest 

 known, more likely to get the second abolished than a third established. Schle- 

 gel (whose observations I shall always be happy to collect and profit by) de- 

 clared that the two species of Microglossi will henceforth stand in precisely the 

 same relation as the two Coracopsis (which he of course called Vasa) to each other. 

 But even not considering that result of our investigation, our chief object would 

 have become the least important, from the great variety of valuable and new ani- 

 mals we saw on all sides in the newly-built galleries and well-kept museum, espe- 

 cially among reptiles ! And what can I say of the unique collection of foetuses ? 

 Even Englishmen could not help being amazed at seeing in the midst of other 

 wonders, the Elephant and Hippopotamus bottled up in spirits ! 



