Long. tot. 8 imc. ; rostri, 1 ; alee, 4 ; cauda, 3^ ; tarsi, ^. 

 Rostrum pedesque corneo-brunnei. 

 Hab. in montibus Himalayeiisibus, in NepaM, &c. 

 The crest consists of elongated feathers, intermingled with the 

 hairy bristles usual in the genus. 



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Geocichla eubecula. Geo. dorso, alls, cauddque saturate ceervleo- 

 cinereis, alls albo late fasciatis ; cnpite, collo, corporeque siibtiis 

 nitide ferrugineis ; crisso caud<sque tectricibus inferioribtis albis. 



Long. tot. 8 unc. ; rostri, 1 ; alee, 4+; Cauda, 25 ; tarsi, H. 



JfJos^rum nigrum ; ^ars? brunnei. 



Hab. in Java. 



This pretty species resembles in many respects the Red-breast, 

 Erithacus Rubecula, Swains. It belongs to an interesting group, 

 which was first characterized by M. Kuhl, and of which the Society's 

 collection possesses four well-marked species. 



Mr. Gould subsequently directed the attention of the Meeting to 

 a specimen of the Turdiis macrourus of Dr. Latham, with the view 

 of explaining the characters which induced him to regard that bird 

 as constituting the type of a new 



Genus Kittacincla. 



Rostrum caput longitudine aequans, ad apicem emarginatum, rec- 



tiusculum, compressiusculum. 

 Nares basales, plumis brevibus utplurimum tectae. 

 Ala raediocres, rotundatae : remige Ima brevissima, 4tk Stdque 



subaequalibus, longioribus. 

 Cauda elongata, gradata. 

 Tarsi digitiqae longiusculi, tenues. 



Obs. Maribus color supra utplurimum niger; subtiis brunneus 

 vel albus. 



A paper by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z.S., on some of 

 the Scolopacidce of Nipal, was read ; the copy transmitted by that 

 gentleman to the Society containing various corrections of his me- 

 moir which was pubhshed at Calcutta in the 'Gleanings of Science' 

 for August, 1831. 



Mr. Hodgson's object in the present paper is to bring under the 

 notice of zoologists the various species of the family referred to 

 which occur in Nipal, on the natural history of which country he 

 has, during a residence of several years, been engaged in making 

 most extensive researches. The result of these it is his intention 

 immediately to publish, accompanied by finished representations of 

 the animals, taken from drawings made in almost every instance 

 from numerous living individuals of the several races. 



Mr. Hodgson first describes in detail the common Woodcock, Sco- 

 lopax Rusticola, Linn., as it occurs in Nipal ; where it is, in every 

 respect of form and colour, evidently identical with the European 

 bird. In Nipal also it seems to be, as it is in Western Europe, of 



