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scarcely a tinge of olive-green ; feathers of the middle of back, 

 uropjgium, and upper tail-coverts dark ashy at base, with 

 yellowish olive-green tips ; quills brown, with bright yellowish- 

 green outer edges ; rectrices above paler brown, edged near 

 their insertion and more or less throughout their length 

 with the bright yellowish green of the quills ; outer rectrices 

 decidedly darker brown than the middle pair ; the middle pair, 

 which is longest, with a faint subterminal bar or drop ; the 

 next pair with an obvious dark subterminal drop, which is 

 still more evident in the remaining rectrices ; all the rectrices 

 with a narrow albescent terminal fringe ; on their under sur- 

 faces the green edgings aj^pear brighter than when seen from 

 above ; a few of the chin-feathers fulvous ; throat and cheeks 

 ashy white ; feathers of the breast pale ash, with broad luteous 

 or yellowish-white centres, giving the breast a striped aj^pear- 

 ance ; the remainder of the feathers of the under plumage silky 

 white, ashy at the base ; those of the flanks with a faint yel- 

 lowish tinge ; shoulder-edge and under carpals yellowish white ; 

 axillaries silky white, tipped with yellowish green ; thigh- 

 coverts pale ferruginous ; maxilla pale horn-brown ; mandible 

 yellowish white ; legs like the maxilla, only paler. A large 

 species with a long and stout bill. 



Longitudo 

 Rostr. a nar. Alfe. Caudae. Tarsi. 



O-oO 2 2-20 0-8o 



Obtained in the Philippine island of Guimaras by Dr. B. 

 Meyer during the month of March. The single example pro- 

 cured is labelled a ^' male." 



XXXIX. — On the Nomenclature of the Foraminfera. By W. 

 K. Parkee, F.R.S., and Prof. T. Bupekt Jones, F.Ii.S., 

 F.G.S. 



Part XV. The Species figured hy Ehrenherg. 



[Continued from p. 200.] 



XIX. Miscellaneous Recent Foraminifera. 

 § 1. Tripoli from San Francisco. (Monatsber. 1853, p. 216.) 

 PI. XXXIII. XIII. fig. 27, Grammostommn simplex^ seems to be 

 a young Bolirina dilatata (?). 



§ 2. Blown Saiidj Libyan Desert. 

 PI. XXXIV. X. A. 6. Triloculina? Indeterminable. 



§ 3. Bloion Sand, Baltic, near Wismar, Mechlenharg. 

 PI. XXXIV. X. B. 1. Rotalia glohulosa =Flanorhulina globulosa. 



