348 Miscellaneous. 
The large € of ~ Himalayas in want of a Name! 
Rogert SwrixgoE, F.Z.8 
It has been "ug * TA the large Heby an Barbet to Bucco 
vi vie Seop., ; peer Gmel., both of which names were 
n toa aoii bird fro a, a, for which it has been mistaken. 
On comparing ea mr specimens from South China with three 
from the Himalayas, I find certain constant differences between them. 
I am of — spies that the two races ought to be separated ; 
and as both the names in use were originally applied to the Chinese 
bird, I would saree to dub = pn species in honour of 
the Marshalls (Capts. C. H. T. and G. F. L.), who are now engaged 
in producing an excellent monograph of this family. 
MEGALÆMA MASBHALIOREM, Sp. nov. 
Form 
bill. Feathers of head and ne marked w ith m violet-blue in- 
stead of greenish azure. wer hind neck patched with nm 
bosoating E smaller and confined to centre of feathers as the bird ma- 
tures; in B. virens a few pale streaks only oceur. Lesser and a 
ng 
outer webs of the secondaries, the former having a large maroon 
spot on each feather 
In colouring similar in other respects to B. virens. 
asm Notice of a Ziphioid Whale, probably Berardius Arnuxii, 
anded on the l6th of December, 1868, on the sea-beach, near 
Now reet Canterbury, New Balant By Juros Haast, 
Ph.D., S. 
Towards the latter part of December, last year, it was stated that 
a whale had been stranded on the sea-beach, near the mouth of the 
Avon. Unfortunately the notice reached me too late to enable me to 
see the body in its fresh state, and when I went to the sea-beach the 
blubber had been cut off nearly a week, and the animal was already 
in such an advanced state of putrefaction that the external appear- 
ance was greatly destroyed. Before entering into a description of its 
affinities and oe I may be allowed to offer a few observa- 
tions on its captu 
Mr. William Walker, a fisherman, living near the mouth of the 
Avon, one mile and a p below New Brighton, observed, on the 
16th of December, earl the morning, that a huge animal was in 
te came too near it. def that he could not manage den large 
animal by himself, he returned home to fetch a pues a larger knife, 
and assistance. After having, with some trouble, shaved p^ rope 
round the tail, and fastened it securely to the stump of a tree on the 
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