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Androdon cequatorialis. 



This new bird is so very singular that it is not easy to say to which 

 section of the family it is most nearly related ; but in some of its 

 characters it assimilates with Gryphus, Eutoxeres, and Doryfera. 

 In size it is about equal to Lampornis Mango ; the edges of its man- 

 dibles are thickly set with fine teeth, like those of Gryphus, but are 

 more strongly developed ; the bill is very long for the size of the bird, 

 and has rather an upward curvature ; the wings are moderate in propor- 

 tion to the body, and the tail is square or slightly rounded. The bird 

 must be ranked among the dull-coloured species of its extensive family; 

 at the same time it exhibits some approach to a metallic lustre in the 

 blue or bronzy-red colouring of the hinder part of the crown. I 

 say blue or bronzy-red, because the only two specimens I have seen 

 differ in this way, as they also do in the form of the bill, — the one 

 with a blue crown having the toothing very strongly developed, and 

 the bill terminating in spiny hooks which cross each other when 

 that organ is closed ; while the other with a bronzy-red crown has a 

 longer bill, the serrations less developed, and the spiny hooks want- 

 ing. The tarsi are bare of feathers ; and the feet are small, pale in 

 colour, and with very long black nails. The back in both is bronzy 

 green ; the rump apparently crossed with white feathers, while the 

 upper tail-coverts are bluish ; the tail-feathers are pale olive-grey at 

 the base, crossed with a band of blackish green near the tip, the 

 three outer ones on each side being largely tipped with white ; wings 

 purplish brown, with epaulets of light grey, similar in form to those 

 seen in Helianthea Eos ; all the under surface grey, with a conspi- 

 cuous streak of blackish brown down the feathers of the throat, as 

 in Eutoxeres. 



Total length 5| inches; bill l^; wing If; tail If. 



Habitat. Ecuador. 



I remain. Gentlemen, 



Your obedient Servant, 



John Gould. 

 26 Charlotte Street, Bedford Square, 

 August 26, 1863. 



Description of a New Species of Lemur. 

 By A. D, Bartlett. 



In size this animal nearly equals the Ruffed Lemur (Lemur Ma- 

 caco), which it also much resembles in form and habits. 



The living specimen now exhibited was purchased for the Society 

 from a dealer in Liverpool, in the month of October 1861, and has 

 been in the Menagerie since that time. It was stated, by the person 

 who brought it to this country, that the natives of Madagascar, from 

 whom it was obtained, said it was of a very rare kind, and that it 

 had been kept as a pet upwards of two years in that country. 



I have compared this animal with the descriptions and specimens 

 that I have been able to find in the British Museum and several 

 museums on the Continent, and I feel satisfied that this animal 



