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broad black belt, and the very narrow band of scarlet across the ab- 

 domen, as may be seen by a comparison of the figure given by 

 Gould in his Monograph, and the one by Vieillot in his Galerie des 

 Oisecmx, torn. ii. 



"The specimen now before me, oitheAzara: of Wagler, was brought 

 from British Guiana by R. H. Schomburgk, Esq., Corr. Memb. Zool. 

 Soc, and presented by him to this Society. In the Earl of Derby's 

 collection there is a specimen of the bird figured by Gould, for which 

 I propose the name of Pteroglossus flavirostris, from the uniform 

 colouring of its beak. M. Natterer informs me the latter species is 

 from Rio Janeiro." 



July 28. — Professor Owen in the Chair. 

 Mr. Cuming exhibited some sjiecimens of Quadrupeds, which he 

 had procured during his stay at Malacca ; they consisted of two spe- 

 cimens of Semnopithecus ohscurus, which species, Mr. Cuming states, 

 is subject to great variation in its colouring, one specimen of Felis 

 marmorata, and one of Rhizomys Sinensis. 



Mr. Cuming's notes relating to the last-mentioned animal state 

 that the specimen was a male, and before it was skinned afforded the 

 following dimensions : length from tlie tip of the nose to the root of 

 the tail, 15 inches; of tail, 6 inches; girth behind the shoulders, 8 

 inches. The animal lives on the roots of bamboos, under which it 

 burrows ; the eyes are very small, and of a black colour. 



Mr. Blyth read a paper entitled " An Amended List of the Species 

 of the genus Oris*." 



The paper was illustrated by numerous drawings ; and the horns 

 of the Ras? of Pamir, from the Museum of the Royal Asiatic Society, 

 and two pairs of those of the Sha of Little Thibet, and one of the 

 Nahoor Sheep, or Snd of Great Thibet, brought by G. T. Vigne, 

 Esq., were exhibited. 



Mr. Blyth also exhibited various other coloured drawings and spe- 

 cimens collected chiefly in Little Thibet by Mr. Vigne, among the 

 former of which were several figures of the Yak (Bos grunniens) , a 

 highly-finished portrait of the Jharalf of Mr. Hodgson, another of 

 the Ovis Vignii, some sketches of the Ursits isahellinus, (or Syriacus 

 of Ehrenberg ?) and of Buffaloes of the same breed as that of Italy 



* The p.iper will be given in a future number. 



•j- " This animal is mostly known as the Tehr, Tliaur, or Tltar, to the 

 westward of Nepal, a name applied by Mr. Hodgson to a very differehl 

 aiurnal, which is usually called Surow, or Surrvw. 'i'he first of these names, 

 as suggested to me by Col. H. Smith, is clearly a modification of the Teuton 

 Tliur, ramifying into Thier, Deer, S:c. Src. Src. Surow, or Surrow, again 

 passes into various other names, applied to diflerent Himalayan Ruminants; 

 as Jerow or Jerroiv for the Cervus Aristofelis, Serow and Cliirew (pronounced 

 v.'ith a soft ' Ch') for the Panfhalojjs chiru, Hodgson, &c. Then we have 

 Jharal, Gornl, Gooriil, Bural, Boorul, Burrhel, Boorhoor, Nayoor, Nahoor, 

 and even the Persian Maral may be derived from the same root. These 

 names, too, are all severally applied to different animals, whenre it often re- 

 quires much caution in endeavouring to ascertain what species is intended." 

 — E. B. 



