1876.] 



MR. P. L. SCLATER ON A NEW PARROT. 



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The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A Levaillant's Cynictis {Cynictis penicillata), presented by 

 Viscount Mandeville, January 5th. Of this rare and elegantly 

 shaped Carnivore (figured in the Society'e 'Transactions,' vol. i. 

 pi. iii.) but few specimens have been lately received. One pre- 

 viously obtained was accidentally omitted from the Revised List of 

 Vertebrates, where the species is not mentioned. 



2. A White-spotted Crake {Porzana notata), captured at sea off 

 Cape Santa Maria, TJrnguay, by an officer of the R.M.S.S. 'Elbe,' 

 and received January 19th. The specimen agrees accurately with 

 the figure in the 'Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle' (Birds, 

 pi. 48). The species is rare, and quite new to the collection. 



3. A Panda {^lurus fulgens), sent home from Calcutta, and pur- 

 chased 1 6th February, 1876. There has been but one living specimen 

 of this rare animal previously in the collection. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited the Parrot designated in Tschudi's ' Fauna 

 Peruana' (Aves, p. 271) Coniirus ilUgeri, which had been kindly 

 sent to him for examination by M. Louis Coulon, Honorary Direc- 

 tor of the Museum of Neuchatel, and observed that it had been 

 wrongly determined by the author of the ' Fauna Peruana.' The 

 specimen, which, in spite of what Tschudi said, was certainly 

 not far from mature, presented no traces of the red markings on the 

 front, back, and belly, which are characteristic of Ara mai-acana 

 (i. e. Conurus illigeri of Tschudi), and had besides a larger and 

 deeper bill and longer tail. It appeared to belong to a species 

 hitherto unrecognized, which might be described as follows : — 





Head of Ara couhni (nat. size). 

 Ara couloni, sp. nov. 



Conurus illigeri, Tsch. Fauna Per. Aves, p. 271. 

 Sittace mnracana, part, Finsch, Papag. i. p. 420. 

 Diagn. Viridis, capile undique retnigibus et rectricibus extus cctru- 



