PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 9, 1868. 

 Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



Mr. P. L. Sclater exhibited a drawing (Plate I.) of a new species 

 of Impeyan, lately named by M. Albert GeofFroy St.-IIilaire Lopho- 

 phorus Vhuysi*, taken from the original specimen which had been 

 recently purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum. This skin 

 had been transmitted to France by M. Dabry, French Consul at Han- 

 kow, and was stated by its describer to have been obtained in Nor- 

 thern China. But, according to information Mr. Sclater had received 

 from the British Consul at Hankow through Mr. J. J. Stone, the 

 collection of which this bird formed a part had been really formed 

 by one of the French Missionary priests resident at Llassa in Tibet, 

 and its natural habitat was probably some portion of the northern 

 slope of the great Himalayan range, where it would represent the 

 Lophophorus refulgens of the southern focies of the same range. 



Mr. Sclater gave the following short diagnoses of the two species : — 



L. refulgens : cristce plumis spatulatis : cauda unicolore rufo- 

 castanea : ex mont. Himalayan, facie merid. 



L. I'huysi: cristcB plumis int eg ris : cauda ceneo-viridi, albo stel- 

 lata : ex mont. Himalayan, facie boreali. 



* Bull. Soc. Accl. ser. 2, t. iii. p. 223 (18G6). 



Proc. Zool. Soc. — 1868, No. I. 



