76 Miscellaneous. 
Taxidermist, of New York, who has no accurate recollection of its 
locality, but is of the opinion that it came from South America. 
I have named this singular and beautiful little species in honour of 
Mr. Edward Harris, of Moorestown, N. J., Chairman of the Ornitho- 
logical Committee of this Academy, and a distinguished naturalist. 
Genus Sycosivus, Viezllot. 
Sycobius scutatus, nobis. 
do Upper part of the head and neck, broad pectoral band and 
under tail-coverts bright crimson ; the crimson of the breast uniting 
on the sides of the neck with that of the head. 
Throat and ears black, which colour forms a large gular patch 
extending to, but scarcely including the eyes. 
All other parts of the body black. 
Broad pectoral band and under tail-coverts crimson ; all other 
parts, including the head, black. 
Total length of skin, from tip of bill to end of tail, about 53 inches ; 
wing, 33; tail, 23. 
Hab. Western Africa. 
Two pairs of this species now described were brought to this 
country by Robert MacDowell, M.D., Surgeon attached to the 
colonial government of Sierra Leone, who collected them in Western 
Africa. 
It bears a greater resemblance to the Sycobius rubricollis (Swain- 
son), Vieill. Ois. Chant. pl. 43, than to any other species which I 
have found described ; but from this and all others it may readily be 
distinguished by its under tail-coverts being crimson, and also by its 
broad pectoral band of the same colour.-—Proceedings of the Aca- 
demy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. iv. p. 157. 
Description of a new species of Salamander from Upper California. 
By Epwarp Ha.iowett, M.D. 
Salamandra lugubris. 
Sp. Char.—Head large ; eyes very prominent; tail rather longer 
than the body, which is cylindrical. Head, tail, extremities, and the 
rest of the animal dark olive above, lighter beneath; an indistinct 
irregular row of yellowish spots on each side. Several small spots 
of the same colour upon the neck and upper part of the tail and 
posterior extremities. 
Description.—Head large, swollen at the temples, depressed in 
front; snout obtuse and somewhat rounded; eyes large, latero- 
superior; nostrils latero-anterior, small and distant; the palate is 
provided with two transverse rows of teeth (situated immediately 
behind the posterior nares), which are incurvated internally and 
meet posteriorly. There is also a longitudinal row of teeth, sepa- 
rated from those described by an interval of half a line ; tongue long 
and spatulate, very free at its edges, attached by a pedicle at its 
anterior extremity ; neck somewhat contracted, without a gular fold ; 
body and extremities slender, the posterior larger than the anterior ; 
tail compressed, cylindrical, tapering to a point. 
Colour. (From a specimen in spirits in the museum of the 
