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web brownish chestnut, with a broad white tip to the inner web ; 
the rest of the rectrices, except the two centrals, have their outer 
webs tipped with chestnut, their inner webs with white, and they 
are narrowly edged with light yellowish brown; the two centrals 
are more broadly edged and have broad chestnut marks on both 
outer and inner webs towards the tips. Axillaries dusky, the carpal 
edge being barred with black and white like the throat. Under- 
parts light yellowish brown, many of the flank-feathers being deep 
chestnut-brown with white margins, and the abdominal feathers 
with blackish V-shaped bars and white margins. Under tail-coverts 
blackish chestnut, with broad white margins and tips. 
Bill blackish brown, ochreous-yellow on the sides of the basal half 
of the lower mandible. Iris chestnut. Legs and toes ochreous, with 
light-brown claws. 
Length about 7°5 inches, wing 4:2, tail 3, bill in front *55, tarse 
*85. 
This handsome species may be at once distinguished from its 
nearest ally, the Accentor nipalensis, by the chestnut colour that 
marks its rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail, by its greyer head 
and neck, and by the markings of the flanks and belly. decentor 
altaicus, Brandt, and A. alpinus, L., are also members of this group 
of mottled-throated Accentors. 
The only other Accentor that has been found in China is the 4. 
montanellus, Pall., of which Pére David has sent me two specimens 
procured in the neighbourhood of Peking. 
March 10, 1870. 
John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 
The Secretary spoke of the additions to the Menagerie during 
the month of February, and called particular attention to the fol- 
lowing :— 
1. A Brown Hyzena (Hyena brunnea) from South Africa, pur- 
chased of a London dealer on February 7th, being the second speci- 
men of this rather rare Carnivore ever possessed by the Society. 
The previous specimen (which was a female, purchased in 1853) had 
died on the 14th of August, 1866. 
2. A Cape Grass-owl (Scelostrix capensis) from South Africa, 
purchased February 7th. And 
3. A Cape Horned Owl (Budo capensis), purchased the same day. 
Both these birds were believed to be the first specimens of their re- 
spective species exhibited in the Society’s Menagerie. 
4. A Kangaroo, purchased of a London dealer on the 25th of 
February, and presenting the appearance of being a young animal 
