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of Teinminck's Manual ; and a new species of Phaleris, Temm. 

 The Prince of Musignano made some observations on these birds, 

 and signified his intention of describing them ia the Zoological 

 Journal, in a supplementary paper to his ^^ Sj/nopsis'' of the 

 birds of the United States. He proposed to call the new species 

 of Phaleris, P. cero/iij/nca.* 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mai/ 5, 1826. The reading of a paper, by Dr. Digsljy, Oti the 

 Geology of the Valley of the St. Lazcrencs, was concluded. 



June 2. A paper was read, entitled. On the ft^esh-ioater strata 

 of Ilordzrcllj Beacon, and Barton Cliffs^ Hants.; by C. Lyell, 

 Esq. F.U.S. F.L.S. F.G.S. 



Nov. 3. A paper was read, entitled, Jddttional remarks on 

 the nature and character of the Limestone and Slate ^ principally 

 composing the rocks and hills round Plymouth ; by the Rev. R. 

 Hennah, F.G.S. The authour refers to a former paper on this 

 subject, in which he confined his field of observation to the narrow 

 tract between the Plym and the Tamar ; he now extends its limits 

 to Mount Batten and Statten heights, in a southerly direction. 

 In this tract, which forms the eastern side of Plymouth Sound, as 

 well as the western side from Mount Edgcumbc to Pudding Point, 

 unimal-remains are imbedded in the slate. On the eastern side 

 the superior beds are occasionally of an ochreous clay slate, con- 

 taining thin ferruginous veins with trochitcs and stems of cncri- 

 nites : these are associated with some other fossil remains, the 

 characters of which are indistinct. The lower beds consist of 

 compact light gray slate inclosing remains like those found in the 

 limestone and clay-slate. An ironstone bed occurs here which 

 IS used for pavements ; and fragments of animal-relics arc disco- 

 verable in it. From these fuels the authour infers, that the slate 

 which is prolonged beyond the Plymouth limestone, even as far 

 southward as Whitesand Hay, is not primitive : but he remarks, 

 that he has never perceived animal-remains in the slate north of 

 that limestone. 



* S.;oN.>. IX. p.c3. 



