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disposal of the Society, for exhibition and description, Mr. Vigors 

 exhibited a species of Woodpecker belonging to the three-toed section 

 of that genus, nearly allied to Picus Tiga, Horsf., but differing in its 

 greater size, in more intenseness of the scarlet colour on the back 

 and wings, and in being marked by a light gray patch on the throat. 

 The species was discovered in the Himalayan Mountains by the Hon. 

 Frederick J. Shore of the East India Company's civil service, and 

 was kindly forwarded to the Society for exhibition by his brother, the 

 Hon. C. J. Shore. The species was named in honour of the disco- 

 verer, whose observations made on the spot on many of the Himalayan 

 birds will form the most valuable part of the letter-press accom- 

 panying the forthcoming work on these birds ; — it was characterized 

 as follows : 



Pious Shorii. Pic. suprd. atirantio-viridis ; capite cristate, dorso 

 UTopygioque coccineis ; subtus aldus ; striga postoculari, altera a 

 rictu extendenle, nucha, rernigibus, rectricibus, notisque squamosis 

 pectoris abdominisque atris ; thorace pallide grisescenti-brunneo. 

 Longitudo 12 unc. 



A drawing by Mr. Gould of a species in the Liverpool Museum, 

 which was obligingly communicated by Dr. Traill for description, was 

 exhibited, and the bird was characterized as follows : 



Pastor Traillii. Mas. Past, supra subtHsque brunnescenti-coc- 



cineus ; capite, collo, alisque nigris. 

 Foem. suprcL brunnea, subtus albescens, strigis brunneis notata ; 



capite, collo remigibusque nigris ; cauda brunnescenti-coccitied. 

 Longitudo 104 unc. 



Mr. Vigors observed that this bird appeared to approach nearer to 

 Pastor than to any other known group ; but that at the same time it 

 exhibited some modifications of that form. As he had however only 

 a drawing of the bird before him, he refrained from any more detailed 

 observations. He expressed his pleasure in having the opportunity 

 of inscribing it to an active and scientific naturalist. He begged here 

 also to refer to a bird which he had characterized at a preceding 

 Meeting (Feb. 8), the description of which had been published in the 

 Committee's ' Proceedings' (No. ill. p. 35.), the Phasianus Staceii. 

 This bird was to be included in the list of those which had been libe- 

 rally communicated by other Institutions for the general benefit of 

 science, having been forwarded for exhibition to the Committee by 

 Philip B. Duncan, Esq. Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, 

 where the specimen is deposited ; to whom, and to whose equally 

 liberal brother, J. Shute Duncan, Esq., his predecessor in the Mu- 

 seum, every lover of zoology is aware how deeply their science is 

 indebted. The species commemorates the name of Major Stacey of 

 the East India service, who had obtained the bird in the Himalayan 

 range, and had presented it, with several other valuable species, to 

 the Ashmolean Museum. 



Mr. Vigors, in closing this subject, called the attention of the Com- 

 mittee to some errors which had occurred in the lettering of the plates 

 on which the foregoing birds had been lithographed. The Picus auri- 

 ceps (' Proceedings,' No. IV. p. 44.) was by some accident named Picus 



brunnifrons. 



