788 MR. H. ADAMS ON NEW SHELLS FROM THE RED SEA. [Nov. 15, 
throat. The second specimen agrees with the first, except in having 
the coverts of the primary quill-feathers white. This, however, we 
regard as probably due to incipient albinism, as one of the primaries 
in the left wing is also partially white, and there are likewise traces 
of the same colour on the under wing-coverts. 
93. URocHROMA DILECTISSIMA, sp. nov. (Plate XLVII.) 
Lete viridis, pileo cyanescente: maculis tribus frontalibus et una 
utrinque postoculari, cum tectricibus alarum externis pro ma- 
jore parte et campterio toto coccineis: subalaribus flavissimis : 
gula flavicante: caude rectricibus aureis, harum lateralibus 
viridi limbatis et terminatis; intermediis ad apices nigro late 
transfasciatis: primariorum tectricibus et remigum omnium 
superficie superiore nigris, primariis supra viridi extus limbatis, 
infra fere omnino viridescentibus: rostro flavicante, ad basin 
plumbeo: pedibus obscure plumbeis: long. tota 6°3, ale 4°5, 
caude 2, tarsi 0°4. 
Hab. South of Merida (Goering). 
Mr. Goering has, unfortunately, sent us but one skin of this beau- 
tiful new Parrot. It is most nearly allied to U. hueti, but distin- 
guishable at once from that and every other member of the genus 
by the scarlet outer wing-coverts, which remind one of the Crimson- 
winged Parrot of Australia (Platycercus erythropterus). ‘The three 
frontal spots in this species are likewise peculiar. Mr. Goering 
notes the iris as “‘ bright brownish yellow.” 
97. ACCIPITER VENTRALIS, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 303; Scl. 
et Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 25, t. 13. 
A single adult male example from Merida; agrees with Bogota 
skins of A. ventralis in Salvin’s collection, and is apparently quite 
distinct from the species obtained by Mr. Goering in his second 
collection (cf. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 632). It is not quite so rufous 
below as the bird figured in ‘ Exotic Ornithology.’ Mr. Goering 
notes the irides as yellow. 
105. GaALLINAGO FRENATA (Max.); Sel. et Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 196. 
The only Snipe sent by Goering (obtained near the Lagoon of 
Urao) agrees with Brazilian skins of G. frenata. 
9. Descriptions of twenty-six new Species of Shells collected 
by Robert M‘Andrew, Esq., in the Red Sea. By Henry 
Apams, F.L.S. 
(Plate XLVIII.) 
Mirra (Cancitya) antoni®, H. Ad. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 1.) 
M. testa subsolida, elongato-fusiformi, costis obtusis, minoribus in- 
tervenientibus, et striis longitudinalibus insculpta, albida, fasciis 
duabus pallide rubris, et super costas punctis fulvo-rubris ornata ; 
