Zoological Society. 555 



The second species of Kaiig;aroo to which Mr. Gould drew the 

 attention of the members, is nearly allied to the Mucropua pcn'uilla- 

 tiis of Mr. Gray, but differs in being of a smaller size, i)aler colour, 

 in having no black mark on the sitles of the body, and the tail less 

 bushy; the ears, moreover, are smaller in jiroportion, and more 

 pointed. The general colour is gray-brown ; the under parts of the 

 body are dirty white, obscurely tinted with yellowish : on each side 

 of the body, near the base of the fore leg, is a dusky patch ; a dirty 

 white mark is observable on each side of the head, and there is an 

 indistinct mark on the base of the thigh. The tail is moderately- 

 bushy, coloured at the base like the body, but the apical third is 

 dusky black. 



Mr. Gould gave to this species the name 



Macropus (Petrogale) brachyotis. Maci'. vellere e fusco ci- 

 nereo, apud partes inferiores albescente ; caudd floccosd ad apt- 

 cem niyrd ; utrdque gend lined albescente notatd. 



unc. lin. 

 Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudae basin. ... 21 



caudce 16 6 



tarsi digito7'itmqiie (^ineungmhus). . 5 



ab apice rostri ad basin auris .... 3 8 



auris 1 11 



Various specimens presented since the last Meeting were exhibited. 

 These donations consisted of a collection of Birds from Australia, 

 presented by L. Chandler, Esq., and some specimens of Birds and 

 Zoophytes from Gibraltar, presented by Mr. Frembly, 11. N., Cor- 

 responding Member. 



October 27.— William Yarrell, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



In consequence of the lamented death of N. A. Vigors, Esq., one 

 of the founders of the Society, and during the first years of its exist- 

 ence its active and zealous Secretary, whose reputation and influence 

 had materially increased its numbers, as his liberality augmented its 

 collections, the Society adjourned to November 10th. 



November 10. — William YarreU, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



A letter from the Rev. R. T. Lowe, dated Madeira, August S, 1840, 

 was read. It stated that Mr. Lowe had forvvarded for the Society's 

 Museum two specimens of Snakes from Demerara, and a siDecimen of 

 the Ausonia Cuvieri of Risso, from Madeira. " The Ausonia," ob- 

 serves Mr. Lowe, " I scarcely need remark, is one of the most inter- 

 esting and valuable of my acquisitions, from the obscurity attending 

 it, and its supposed identity with Rafinesque's Luvarus impcrialis. 

 It has been altogether passed over by Cuvier and Valenciennes in 

 their Histoire des Foissons, though the former had previously taken 

 it up in a note in his second edition of his Regne Animal." 



A letter from Mr. J. Frembly, R.N., dated Gibraltar, September 

 23, 1840, was read. In this letter Mr. Frembly states that he had 

 foi-\varded for the Society a living specimen of a Brazilian Pheasant 



