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wyn, mentioning the capture in Swansea Bay of a specimen of the 

 Labrus vinculatus, Bloch ; being a second instance of the occurrence 

 of this fish on the British coasts within a ^qw weeks. 



Mr.Yarrell also stated that the Summer Duck, Anas spo7isa,'L.\r\x\., 

 male and female, had been shot recently near Dorking. The Jnas 

 occidua had also occurred in this country : and another American 

 and Northern species of bird, the Alauda alpestris, Linn. 



The Chairman resumed the subject of the Himalayan birds, and 

 exhibited and described the following species. 



Phcenicura cfERULEocEPHALA. Phoen. atra, abdomine striga- 

 que alarum longitudinali albis ; capite pallide coeruleo. 



Statura Phcen. communis. 



Phcenicura leucocephala. Phcen. corpore apicequecaudce atris ; 

 abdomine, crisso, uropygioy cauddque riifis ; capite supra albo. 



Statura Phcen. rubectdcs. 



Phcenicura rubeculoides. Phoen. capite, collo, corporeque su- 

 pra atro-ccerideis, capitis sumnio splendidiore ; abdomine albo ; 

 pec tore rufo. 



Statura Phcen. ccendeocephalce. 



Phcenicura fuliginosa, Phoen. corpore J'uliginoso-plurnheo ; 

 caudd rufd. 



Statura paullo major quam prsecedens. 



Emberiza cristata. Mas. Emb. capite cristato corporeque 

 atris ; alis cauduqite riifis. 



Foem., aut Mas jun.? Capite subcristato corporeque Jitscis, abdo- 

 mine imo pallidiori ; alis cauddque riifescentibus, Jiisco tinctis. 



Statura Carduelis communis. 



Lamprotornis spiLOPTERus. Mas. Lamp, supra plumbeo-cU' 

 nus,plumis ad apicemfusco marginatis ; siibtusalbus, rufotinctiis; 

 uropygio riifescenti ; remigibus atris viridi splendentibus, ma- 

 cula alba ; caudd brunned ; gula intense rtifd. 



Foem. Supra pallide brunnea, subtus albescens, brunneo tincta. 



Statura Lamp, cantoris. 



Myophonus Horsfieldii. Myoph. ccerulescenti-ater, Jronte, 

 humeris, marginibusque plumarum pectoris splendide cceruleis. 



Statura Myoph. cyanei, Horsf. 



Phasianus Staceii. Phas. stramineo-albus, supra frequenter , 

 subtus parce nigro fasciatus, dorso abdomineque imis nifescenti- 

 bus ; capite cristato fusco ; caudd Jasciis latis nigris, ad basin 

 interne rufis, ornatd. 



Longitudo corporis ab apice rostri ad apicem caudue. 3 pedes 

 4^- uncias. 



Otis nigriceps. Ot. corpore supra pallide badio, ritfo-hrunneo 

 graciiiter undulato ; collo, macidis parcis alarum, abdomineque al- 

 bis ; capite cristato, tedricibus alarum exterioribus, remigibus, no- 

 taque grandi pectorali nigris. 



Longitudo corporis ab apice rostri ad apicem caudse, pedes 4 ; 

 latitude, 4^. 



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