152 Mr. R. Swinhoe on four new 
Finally, there are two passages of a kind that are rarely 
seen in a scientific monograph, one reflecting on Prof. Huxley, 
the other reflecting, I think, "upon myself. The former pas- 
sage is as follows :—‘ The tyro, fresh from the lecture-room 
of his physiological teacher, ambitious of soaring into higher 
ad of biology than were opened to him at the = 
the amount of work involved in sustaining a Ptero ae in 
the air would make it, plainesogienily, highly probable that it 
was a hot-blooded animal. But a competent friend, finding 
im bent on rushing with such show of knowledge into print, 
adapted to the delicate testing of the internal heat of small ani- 
mals. , if he should chance to beat down a chafer 
in full fight, the experiment, made with due care and defence 
fingers g the instrument, would teach him how 
fallacious would be the iufetebbe that, because an animal can 
fly, it must, therefore, be hot-blooded, ? &c. &c. 
The other passage, referring seemingly to myself, — 
as follows :—“ An argument - ea of Avian affin p 
the joint-structures could on ropounded by one dot 
ga with the judgment Borie to d with peius of this 
nature." These passages I leave to the consideration of 
others. Yet I would express my conviction that it did not 
fall within the province of the Paleontographical Society to 
publish such matter. 
XI.— On m new Species of Birds from China. 
y ROBERT SWINHOE, F.Z.8. 
pem glabripes, sp. nov. 
Similar to Eph. semitorques (Temm. & S of Japan, 
De Blainville introduces a scheme of Vertebrates as having been n give 
his lectures, in which Pterodactylia is given as the third class of Vorté- 
brata, intermediate between Birds and Reptiles. I reprot not having 
[ees aware of this fact at an earlier period, since the name Pterodac tylia 
is in all ways preferable to other names. As, howev e. it has hitherto 
wn, lam not prepared to adopt it now, the name Orni- 
i 0: 
roprement dit, comme G. Cuvier l'a dit, mais un étre oun le 
es oiseaux aux reptiles, et Sent s épidermique n'était peut-étre 
pas squameux.' 
