PROCKRU8. 



PROPITHECU8. 



JoiHwo arm *old*r*drt the pow^uxlfotinlBgin their interval 



gvtfcml pooch; nostrils opening by two distinct orinost and disposed 

 in the form of a. hort lube. A rery small claw in pUo* of a hind toe. 

 Kirrt i|uill longest. 



Blue Petrel (Frim t'lllalta). 



The type of this genus is the Blue Petrel (Procellana vMala 

 and P. camlet, Gmelin) discovered by Forster. Many individuals 

 wen taken during the voyage of the ' Coqnille," in 58 S. lat. The 

 following is from M. Garnet's description of an individual of this 

 specie* which in the form of Ha bill at least, appears to be leading 

 tbeway toward* the Lamellibranchiate Palmipedes. It is distinguished 

 from the other Petrels by the disposition of iU bill. The mandibles 

 are booked at their extremity ; their base is very much widened. 

 The edge* of the upper mandible are directed a little outwards ; 

 they preeent within a projecting border striated transversely; 

 the interval which separates them exhibit* a small groove. The 

 tonne is very thick and the month very dilatable. Total length, from 

 the bill to the extremity of the tail, 11 inches (French). Length of 

 the n ' tube 3 line*. Extent of wings 20 inches. Size a third 

 larger than Tkalamdroma ptlayica; upper part of the body ashy- 

 bine or gray-blue, deepest on the bead and on the wings. A blackinh 

 band cut* acne* the wings and the lower part of the back near the 

 origin of the tail. This portion is deepest in colour ; the extremity 

 of the tail has the same blackish deep-blue tint; lower part of the 

 body and wings white ; above the tail a line of a blue tint ; bill and 

 eye* plumbeous blue ; middle of the upper mandible and tube of the 

 noetrUs blackish. The middle tail-feathers are rather the longest, 

 which give* the tail a rounded appearance. The tame author gives 

 an interesting detail of the anatomy of the bird. 



PROCERU8. 



PROCHI'LUa [BEAR.] 



PRO'CNIAS, a grant of Birdt placed by Mr. Swainson and others 

 under the sub-family Rnmlycillintr, Swallow Chatterers. It has the 

 following gen-Tic characters : Bill very broad ; the sides inflected ; 

 the tip not hooked. Nostrils nearly naked. Wings pointed ; the three 

 nrrt quills longest Inner too shorter than the outer. Tail slightly 

 forked. (Sw.) 



P. foUratit, the Swallow Fruit-Eater. Male. Bine ; front, throat, 

 and temples, bUck ; middle of the body beneath white, the tides with 

 blackish tnuurene strife. Length about 64 inches. 



Female. Onto ; chin and temples gray ; body beneath yellowish, 

 transversely striated with duiky-green. 



Mr. Swainson (' Zoological Illustrations,' lat scries) remarks that the 

 birds of this genus are remarkable for the enormous width of their 

 mouth*, which in tome species exceeds that of the Swallow family, 

 that enabling them with ease to swallow the large Mckutoma berries 

 and those of other tropical shrubs, on which alone they subsist ; not 

 on insect*, as Curler Mwrte. Although, he adds, they perfectly 

 resemble the iwallowt in the construction of their bills ; their wings 

 re not formed for rapid flight ; and their feet are much stronger, and 

 calculated for searching among branches for their food, in which 

 sitoations Mr. Swainson frequently saw them. The species noticed 

 in, be observe*, a scarce bird ; he met with it only tre time* in Behia ; 

 bat be says that it appears more frequent in the eouthcrn province* of 

 Bratil, specimens having been tent to him from Minas Oeraci and Rio 

 d* Janeiro. 



Swallow Fruit-Eater (Protntat tentralii). (Sw., ' Zoo). 111.') 



PROCRUSTES. [CARABUS.] 



PROCTOTRETUS. [IOUANID.E.] 



PRO'CYON. [URSID*.] 



PRODUCTA. [PKODUCTID*.] 



PRODUCTION, a family of Brachiopodous Mollusca, including the 

 genera Producta, Stropltalotia, and Chontta. The shell is concavo- 

 convex with a straight hinge-line ; valves rarely articulated by teeth ; 

 closely adpressed, furnished with tubular spines; ventral valves 

 convex; dorsal concave; internal surface dotted with conspicuous 

 funnel-shaped punctures ; dorsal valve with a prominent cardinal 

 process; brachial processes (?) subcentral ; vascular markings lateral 

 broad and simple; adductor impressions dendritic, separated by a 

 narrow central ridge ; ventral valve with a slightly-notched hinge-line ; 

 adductor sac central, near the umbo; cardinal impressions lateral, 

 striated. 



Producta has the shell free, auriculate, beak large and rounded ; 

 spines scattered ; hinge area in each valve linear, indistinct ; no hinge- 

 teeth ; cardinal process lobed, striated ; vascular impressions simple, 

 curved ; ventral valve deep, with two rounded or subspiral cavities 

 in front. 



The species are all fossil. There are about sixty species. They are 

 found ranging from the Devonian to the Peruvian rocks of North and 

 South America, Europe, Spitzbergcn, Tibet, and Australia. 



Strophaloria has its shell attached by the umbo of the ventral valve. 

 There are 8 species. 



C'haneta contains 24 species, which ore found fossil from the Silurian 

 to the Carboniferous rocks. 



(Woodward, Treatitt of Recent and Fosiil S/icllt.) 



PROITHEKA. [OoAT-SccKEns.] 



PROMEROPIDJS. [CroriD*.] 



PHONO-BUCK. [AstiLore*] 



PROPITHE'CUS (Bennett), a genus of Sfammalia allied to tlio 

 Itmvritla, and thus characterised : Muzzle moderate. Hinder extre- 

 mities longer than the anterior one*. Index abbreviated. Tail long, 

 hairy. 



Dental Formula : Incisors, _; Canines, Ln* ; Molars, ; (upper) 



two first cuspidate, the third elongated, externally bituberculated, the 

 fourth like the preceding; (lower) first unicuspidnte, second and third 

 plurituberculate, 



/'. IHadcma. Face nearly naked, with short blackish hairs about 

 the lips, and equally short yellowish-white hairs in front of the eyen. 

 Above the eyes, the long, silky, waved, and thickly-set hairs which 

 cover the body commence by a band of yellowish-white crossing the 

 front and passing beneath the ears to the throat. This is succeeded 

 by black, extending over the back of the head and neck, but becoming 

 freely intermingled with white on the shoulders and sides, the white 

 gradually increasing backwards so as to render the loins only slightly 

 grizzled with black. At the root of the tail fulvous, that colour 

 gradually disappearing until the extreme half of the tail Is white, with 

 a tinge of yellow. The under surface white throughout, except the 

 hinder part of the throat, where it is of the same colour with the sides 

 of the body. 



Hairs generally long, silky, wave<l, erect, and glossy ; shorter and 

 more dense on the crupper, where they offer a sort of woolly resist- 



