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round the eyes, which are connected by two white spots forming an 

 arrow-shaped mark on a black ground ; nose black ; a white spot on 

 each side of the upper lip ; chin and gullet white ; and three white marks 

 under each eye ; neck covered witli long shaggy hair, extending also 

 under the belly and fringing the haunches to the knees ; two white 

 spots on the flanks, and a patch of long white hair on the anterior 

 portion of the thigh ; a white tuft under the belly, and another on 

 the dewlap ; on the outer side of the fore-legs is a black patch above 

 the knee surrounded by three white spots ; legs below the knee 

 bright rufous colour ; tail 1 ft. 8 in, long, black above, with tip and 

 inside white. 



Female smaller and without horns ; total length 6 ft. ; nose to 

 insertion of ear 10 in. ; length of ear G^ in. ; height from fore-foot 

 to shoulder 2 ft. 9 in. ; tail 1 ft. 3 in. in length. Colour a bright 

 rufous, inclining to orange, becoming very pale on the belly and 

 lower parts, and white inside the thighs ; a black dorsal ridge of 

 bristly hair extends from the back of the crown to the tail ; nose 

 black ; the white spots on various parts of the body nearly resemble 

 those of the male, only the white stripes on both sides are more 

 numerous and clearly defined, amounting to twelve or thirteen in 

 number ; tail rufous above and white below, tipped with black. 



The young resembles the female, but is rather paler in colour, and 

 has more white spots on the flank and sides. 



Inhabits the lower undulating hills scattered with Mimosa bushes, 

 that border upon the northern shores of St. Lucia Bay, in the Zulu 

 country, lat. 28° south. Found in small troops of eight or ten 

 together, feeding amongst the thickets. 



Mr. Gray has named this species after my father, George Fife 

 Angas, Esq., of South Australia, who has always taken a lively in- 

 terest in my travels and researches in natural history. I may add, 

 that the preceding notes were drawn up from recently-killed speci- 

 mens, which I in vain attempted to purchase from the Boers who 

 possessed them. 



2. Description of a new species of Podica. 

 By G. R. Gray, Esq., F.L.S. etc. 



The bird now laid before the Meeting forms a second species of 

 the genus Podica, Less., the type of which, P. senegalensis, is peculiar 

 to Western Africa. It was obtained from Malacca, and thus extends 

 the range of this singular group, Heliornince, to a third quarter of 

 the globe. The only species known until of late years, which is the 

 type of the subfamily {Heliornis surinamensis) , exists in the warmer 

 parts of the American continent. 



Podica personata, n. sp. 



Sp. ch. — Upper parts olive-brown ; top of the head, lores, cheeks 

 and jugulum, deep black ; back of neck bluish olive ; a short white 

 streak borders the black from the posterior angle of the eye ; the 

 lower surface white ; breast tinged with brown ; the side-feathers 

 faintly, and the under tail-coverts deeply, barred with brown ; the 



