Zoological Society. 233 



PtoCEUS SPILONOTUS. Ploc. cupitc supra corporeque subtus au- 

 rantiacojlavis ; guJa, jugulo, dorsoque summo nigris, hocjlavo 

 macidato ; uropygiofusco-lutescente; alls cauddquefuscis. 



Statura prascedentis ; rostro fortiore. 



Ploceus chrysogaster. Ploc. capite genis corporeque toto supra 

 saturate castuueo-brunneis ; gulajlavo et brunneo variegata ; cor- 

 pora subtus aureo-Jlavo. 



Statura praecedentium ; at rostrum multo validius. 



Lampromokpha * CHALCOPEPLA. Mas. Lamp, supra splendide 

 vmdis.cupreo nitens ; subtus alba, lateribus viridi-cupreo fascia- 

 tis; strigd in capitis medio, secundd superciliari, alteraque maxil- 

 lari, maculis tectricum alarum, remigum, rectricumque, duabus 

 mediis exceptis, albis. 



Foem. a^ul mas jun.? Lamp, corpore suprh metallice viridi ; capite, 



nucha, regioneque interscapulari cupreo splendentibus ; collo in 



fronte pectoreque ritfescenti ; abdomine albo, lateribus viridi-ceneo 



■ fasciatis; caudd ferruginea, viridi-ceneo fasciatd ; rectricum 



trium utrinque lateralium pogoniis, omniumque apicibus albo 



notatis. 



Statura Cuculi aurati, Gmel. 



CouYTHAix PORPHYREOLOPHA. Cor. collo, abdominc medio, pec- 

 tore, regioneque scapulari gramineoviridibus, his subrufescenti- 

 bus ; Jronte strigdque per oculos splendide viridibus ; capite cris- 

 tato, alts, cauddque splendenti-purpureis ; remigum fascia lata 

 subpurpurascenti-coccineis ; dorse abdomineque imis, tectricibusque 

 Jemorumfusco atris ; rostro pedibusque atris 



Statura Cor. Persce, 111. 



Bucco NANUS. Bucco supra niger, sulphureo striatus ; strigd su- 

 perciliari gracili, alteraque per totam longitudinem alarum ex- 

 tendentelata, aurantiis ; guld crissoque sidphureis, abdomine fus- 

 cescenti ; froyite coccineo. 



Longitude corporis, 4-i; rostri ad frontem, -^, ad rictum ^-V- 



Yltnx pectoualis. Y. supra pallide brimnescenti-griseus, fusco 

 gracihter undulatus ; nucha scapularihusque nigro notatis, cauda 

 nigro fasciatd; subtus albidus, collo in fronte confertim,fcmorum 

 tectncibus minhs confertim, nigro fasciatis, abdomine ni^ro li- 

 neato ; macula grandi pectorali ad gulam extendente rufu t remi- 

 gibus fnscis, pogoniis externis ferruginea fasciatis. 



btatura Y. Torquilla;, Linn. 



June 28, 183L Rev. W. Kirby in the Chair. 



A letter from Sir Robert Ker Porter, Corr. Memb. Z. S., 



dated City of Caraccas, Venezuela, March 25, 1831, was read. Jt 



announced his having recently obtained possession of a specimen of 



the American Tapir, {Tapir Americanus, Gmel.), which it was his 



'A group including the shining Cuckoon of Africa, India, and New Hol- 

 »«' .r"""* '" """ '^'fa">"ictions oj the Linncnn Society, vol. xv. p .'iOO 

 Mr. Vigors expressed his belief of having lately seen a name attached to 

 this group by some modern author; but lie could not call to his recollection 

 the woik in vtliich it occurred. 



N.S. WA. 10. No. .-J?. Srpl. I S3 1. 2 11 intention 



