196 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIK. [May 14, 



tenue, patens, acutum, marginibus callo tenui junctis. Operc. 



temiissimum, normaJe, 

 Diam. maj, 9^, min. 8, alt. 8^ mill. 

 Hab. Camboja (M. Mouhoi). 



27. PupiNA MOUHOTi, Pfr. (n. 8 a). T. ovato-subacuminata, 

 tenuis, Icevigata, pellucida, fusco-cornea ; anfr. 5-^ convexius- 

 culi, ultimus spiram suhcequans, antice vix ascendens ; sutura 

 levissime marginata ; apertura verticalis, subcircularis ; paries 

 aperturalis lamella obliqua, marginem dextrum fere tangente 

 munitus ; columella oblique dissecta, processum linguiformem 

 subtriangidarem exhibens; perist. rejlexiusculum, margine dextro 

 sinuafo. Operc. tenue, concolor. 



Long. 9, diam. 5 mill. 



Hab. Camboja (M. Mouhot). 



May 14th, 1861. 



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



The Secretary called the attention of the meeting to several im- 

 portant additions recently made to the Menagerie. 



The Hon. James F. Stuart Wortley had presented to the Society, 

 on his recent return from China, thirty-four living specimens of the 

 Three-toed Sand-Grouse of Pallas {Syrrhaptes paradoxus), and had 

 given the following answer to a request for particulars concerning 

 his acquaintance with this scarce bird : — 



" I fear that I can tell you but little about the Sand-Grouse. The 

 specimens I sent you I bought in the market at Tientsin, where 

 numbers of them were exposed for sale, alive and dead ; but whether 

 they were supplied chiefly with a view to the demand caused by the 

 presence of the troops, or whether they naturally form a large article 

 of consumption among the Chinese, I could not say. I rather fancy, 

 however, that the former idea is the correct one. I saw none as far 

 up the country as Pekin ; they hardly seemed to range further than 

 Tientsin, but abounded between that place and the mouth of thePeiho. 

 They were always to be seen in large packs, such as you see Grouse 

 in when they get wild in September ; and seemed to like being by 

 the side of the river on the mud banks when left diy by the tide. 



" On our voyage up to Tientsin in the end of August not a bird 

 was to be seen ; and as far as I could learn, they had only just begmi 

 to appear at Tientsin when we arrived there, on our return, in the 

 beginning of November. Where they arrived from, or at what time 

 they disappeared again in the spring, I regret to say I never thought 

 of inquiring. Their food must consist of the grain (millet) that 

 covers the whole of that part of China ; and I should mention that 



