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in the Society's Gardens in the September following, and we had 

 for some time" great hopes of inducing them to breed with us. But, 

 although they lived nearly two years in the Menagerie, they were 

 evidently not in good health, and died without young birds being 

 obtained from them. 



In April last our Corresponding .Member Mr. Robert Owen, of San 

 Geronimo in Guatemala, brought us home a single female of this 

 species, which he had obtained from the district of Peten. On its 

 arrival this bird was in very poor condition, but is now doing tolerably 

 well. As ]Mr. Owen has "returned to Guatemala, and promises us 

 to use every effort to obtain more examples of this beautiful species, 

 we need no"t yet despair of seeing the Ocellated Turkey estabhshed 

 in our poultry-yards. 



5. Catalogue of a Collection of Mollusks from Bermuda. 

 By H. B. Tristram, M.A., F.L.S., Corr. Memb. Z.S. 



Dr. Sclater having kindly intrusted to me a small collection of 

 thirty species of Mollusks from Bermuda, presented to the Zoological 

 Society l)y Colonel Freeman Murray, late Governor of the Bermudas, 

 I have' been induced, while cataloguing this collection, to make a list 

 of the shells in my possession, which I obtained while resident for 

 some time in those islands. My cabinet contains about 150 Ber- 

 mudan species, including all those presented by Col. Freeman Murray. 

 This list, however, might be indefinitely extended, as I unfortunately 

 paid very little atteution to the subject while in the islands, never 

 used the dredge, nor collected systematically, so that nearly the whole 

 of my sjiecies are from the laminar! an zone, excepting a few gathered 

 from* the fishing-boats. I am not aware of any conchologist having 

 yet systematically examined the coral-reefs or sandy bottoms of the 

 Bermudas, — the only attempt at an enumeration of the Mollusks 

 being, so far as I am aware, a most meagre list by Dr. Temple Prime 

 of New York, slightly enlarged by Mr. Jones in his interesting Httle 

 work ' The Naturalist in Bermuda.' These lists contain seven ter- 

 restrial Gasteropods with which I am unacquainted (five of them being 

 new species), and thirteen marine species (three of them new, like- 

 wise wanting in my collection). 



Although few of the Mollusks enumerated in this notice are new 

 or peculiar to the Bermudas, yet the list presents some very interest- 

 ing features with reference to the geographical distribution of the 

 marine fauna of the Atlantic. While the Flora and Avifauna of Ber- 

 muda are identical with, and have doubtless been supplied from, the 

 opposite coasts of North America, there being neither birds nor plants 

 which are not common to Virginia in the same latitude, the marine 

 fauna appears to be thoroughly West Indian. Of the whole number 

 of shells, I have been able to identify only fourteen as common to 

 the Virginian and Carolinan shores, and of these only one {Uicina 

 pennsylvanica. Lam.) which is not included in the catalogues of the 

 Bahamas or West Indies. 



