4852 Tue ZooLocist—Marcu, 1876. 
at sea off Cape Santa Maria, Uruguay, and received January 19th; anda 
panda (Ailurus fulgens), purchased. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited the parrot called, in Tschudi’s ‘ Fauna Peruviana,’ 
Conurus Illigeri, and observed that it had been certainly wrongly deter- 
mined. Mr. Sclater was of opinion that the bird belonged to a species 
hitherto unrecognised, and proposed to call it Ara Couloni, after M. Coulon, 
of Neuchatel, who had sent the specimen for exhibition. 
Dr. Cobbold exhibited and made remarks on a parasite (Kchinorhynchus), 
obtained from the Tamandua anteater, which had died in the Society’s 
Menagerie. 
Mr. W. K. Parker read the second portion of his memoir on Adgithog- 
nathous birds. 
A communication was read from the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, in which he 
described a new order and some new genera and species of Arachnida from 
Kerguelen Island, from specimens collected by Mr. T. Eaton during the 
Transit of Venus Expedition. 
Mr. G. French Angas communicated descriptions of four new species of 
land shells from Australia and the Solomon Islands, which he severally pro- 
posed to name Helix Noresbyi, Helix Ramsdeni, Helix Beatrix, and Helix 
Rhoda. Mr. Angas also made some remarks on the nomenclature of Helix 
Angasiana of Pfeiffer and Helix biteniata of Cox. 
Mr. Sclater read some notes, by himself and Mr. Salvin, on some of the 
blue crows of America, taken from specimens lately examined, and pointed 
out certain changes which it would be necessary to make in the nomen- 
_clature of the group adopted in their ‘ Nomenclator Avium Notropicalium.’ 
—P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 
— 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Messrs. WoopwarD.—The birds arrived safely. Mr. Gurney has kindly 
affixed a label and name to each as under :— 
The large yellow-bellied shrike Laniarius icterus. 
The small yellowbellied shrike ys quadricolor. 
The reddish-breasted shrike . ns rubiginosus. 
The broad-beaked flycatcher . Platyrhynchus capensis, female or young. 
The bird with yellow margin ee nigra, young male in 
to the wing- and tail-feathers change. 
Mr. Gurney adds :—‘“‘ The five species are all given in Layard’s first - 
edition, but his description of Laniarius icterus is incorrect, the specimen 
he described having in reality belonged to another species, which he after- 
wards explained in the ‘Ibis.’ Your friends may like to know this.”— 
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