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reund 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 with 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 6} in.; height from fore-foot 
to shoulder 2 ft. 9in.; tail 1 ft. 3in. 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. DeEscRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF Popica. 
By G. R. Gray, Ese., F.L.S. erc. 
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, Heliornine, 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. 
Popica PERSONATA, 0. 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 
