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Chama sordida. Chama testd albidd subroseo varid vel totd sub' 

 rosed, creberrime striatd, hinc et hinc foUaced; intiis albd. 

 Umbo crenulato. 

 Hab. in America Centrali. (Isle of Cuiia.) 



This species, which varies much according to its age, but never 

 appears to grovir to a large size, was dredged up from a depth of 

 eighteen fathoms, attached to rocks. Old specimens have the lower 

 valve often very much produced. 



A Note by Mr. George Bennett on the Nasal Gland of the ican- 

 dering Albatross, Diomedea exulans, Linn., was read. It described in 

 detail the gland situated in that bird above the orbit, as observed by 

 the writer in 1832, and accorded with the account of it published by 

 him in the Appendix to his ' Wanderings in New South Wales,' &c. 

 It was illustrated by a drawing of his dissection of the head of an 

 Albatross, made specially with the view of tracing the excretory duct 

 of the gland, which he succeeded in doing for nearly two inches 

 under the external plate of the upper mandible, in a direction towards 

 the nostrils, but inclining slightly upwards, until he lost sight of it 

 among the cellular substance of the bone. The writer notices the 

 occurrence of a corresponding structure in other Birds, particularly 

 among the Natatores, and refers to Miiller for an account of the 

 gland as it exists, in or near the orbit, in species of every order of 

 Aves. 



A specimen was exhibited of a Kangaroo, recently brought from 

 New Holland, by Capt. Sir W. Edward Parry, R.N., and presented 

 by him to the Society. 



Mr. Bennett called the attention of the Meeting to it as repre- 

 senting a species not hitherto described, and distinguishable by its 

 paler colour, which is generally of a slaty grey ; by the whiteness of 

 its tail throughout the greater part of the length of that organ ; by 

 the comparative length of the tail, which is here longer than the 

 body, whereas in the ordinary greater Kangaroo, Macropus major, 

 Shaw, it is shorter ; by the comparative nakedness of the ears ; by 

 the great extent of the naked muzzle; and by a broad white strijie 

 alone each cheek. He stated it to be his intention to describe it in 

 detail under the name of 



Macropus Parryi. Macr. rhinario lato ; auriculis elongatis nu- 



diusciilis ; caudd corpore siiblongiore, pilis rigidis brevibus inaim - 



bentibus vestitd : notceo griseo ; gastreeo pallida ; fascidgenarum, 



cauduque pro maximd parte, ulbis, hdc ad apicem nigrd. 



Long. tot. a rostro ad caudse apicem 5 ped. 4 poll. ; capitis, 6 poll. ; 



auricula, 4; tarsi postici, ad unguis longioris apicem, lOj-; caudce, 



2 ped. 6 poll. 



In a Note from Sir Edward Parry, which was read, it is stated 

 that the animal in question is known to the natives in the neighbour- 

 hood of Port Stephens (lat. 32° S.) by the name of Wullaroo. This 

 individual had been in his possession in New South Wales for two 

 years previously to his embarkation for England, and was allowed to 



