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bilobed valve which is there represented, though not described in 

 the text j it evidently opposes a too ready egress of the contents 

 of the stomach." 



Mr. Vigors exhibited a collection of African Birds which had 

 been presented to the Society by Henry Ellis, Esq., of Portland 

 Place. They consisted of about one hundred and thirty species, 

 many ot them of extreme rarity and value, and a great portion un- 

 known to the cabinets of England. They came immediately from 

 Algoa Bay ; but were supposed to have been collected far in the 

 interior of the country. Mr. Vigors expressed his intention of lay- 

 ing before the Committee at an early Meeting, a descriptive cata- 

 logue of the whole collection, as well as whatever particulars he could 

 collect respecting the locality from which it was brought. He named 

 arid characterized in the mean time the following apparent novelties 

 from the Insessorial Birds. 



TuRDUS GUTTATUS. TuTcl. supcmi ol'wascenti-hrunneus, subliis sub- 

 rvfescenti-albidus ; strigis tribus genarum, gultis rotundis pectoris 

 abdominisque, tectricumque alarum nutis brunnescenli.atris ; tec- 

 tricibus alarum, rectricibusque tribus utrinque laleralibus ad iipicem 

 albo notatis. 

 Statura paulo minor quam Turdi iliaci, Linn. 

 1'yhrhula albifrons. Pijrr, nigra, capite nuchdquejerrugineo 



nitore subtinctis ; fronte maculdque remigum albis. 

 Longitudo corporis, 7f ; alee, 4 3 caudce, 3 ; tarsi, f ; rostri, f , 



altitudo f . 

 Ploceus gutturalis. Ploc. supra pallide olivaceo-brunneus ; 

 capite coUoque in fronte aurardiacis, corporc siibtus aurantiaco- 

 Jiavo ; gida juguloque nigris, rostro atloiuutiore. 

 Longitudo corporis, 6|. 



Ploceus spilonotus. Ploc. capite supra corporeque suhtus au- 

 rantiacojlavis ; gula, jugido, dorsoquc summo nigris, Jtocjlavo 

 macidato ; uropygiojusco-lutescode ; ulis cauduquejiiscis. 

 Statura prsecedentis ; rostro fortiore. 



Ploceus curysogasteu. Ploc. capite genis corporeque tola supra 

 saturate castaneo-brunneis ; gulajlavo et brunneo vuricgata ; cor- 

 pora subtiis aureo-Jlavo. 

 Statura pra^cedentium ; at rostrum multo validius. 

 Lampromoupha* ciialcopepla. Mas. Lamp, suprii splcndidc 

 viridis, cupreo nitens ; subtiis alba, latcribus viridi-cujneo Jitsciu' 

 tis ; strigd in capitis medio, secundd supcrciliari, alteraque niaxil- 

 lari, maculis tectricum alarum, remigum, rcctricumque, duabus 

 mediis exceptis, albis. 

 Foem. aut mas jun.? Lamp, corpore supra metallice viridi ; capite, 



* A group including the shining Cuckoos of Africa, India, and Now Hol- 

 land, indicated in the Transactions of the Linncan Suciety, vol. xv. p 300. 

 Mr. Vigors expressed his belief of having lately seen a name attached to 

 this group by some modern author; but he could not call to his recollection 

 the work in which it occurred. 



