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February 23. 1836. 

 The Rev. J. Barlow in the Chair. 



Mr. Gould, at the request of the Chairman, exhibited specimens 

 of numerous Bi7-ds foi-ming part of the Society's collection ; and di- 

 rected the attention of the Meeting to those which he regarded as 

 the most interesting among them. 



He stated that one of them was especially curious as exhibiting a 

 form of Insessorial Bird, not safely referrible to any known family ; 

 on which account he proposed to consider it as the type of a group 

 to be designated 



Paradoxornis. 



Rostrum altitudine longitudinem superans, ad basin vibrissis in- 

 structum : mandibuld superiore valde compressa ; culmine acuto, 

 vald^ arcuato ; tomio edentulo, apicem versus valdfe incurvo, ad 

 basin producto : mandibuld inferiore ad basin lata, robusta; to- 

 mio emarginato. 



Nares parv'se, rotundatse, pone rostrum sitae. 



Al(E breves, rotundatse : remigibus Atk, 5td, et 6ta longioribus. 



Cauda mediocris, gradata. 



Tarsi robusti, laeves. 



Pedes magni, subtvis lati : digitis magnis ; halluce ungueque postico 

 maximis. 



Ptilosis ampla, laxa. 



The breadth of the under surfaces of the feet is so great as to in- 

 dicate considerable powers of grasping. 



Paradoxornis flavirostris. Par. arenaceo-brunneus, subtiis pal- 

 lidior; capite nuchdque rufo-brunneis ; auribus partim aterrimis ; 

 facie guttureque albis nigra variis ; pectore nigra. 



Long. tot. 8 unc; alee, 34-; caudce, 44-; tarsi, 1+; hallucis (ar- 

 cuati), i. 



Rostrum splendide aurantiaco-flavum ; pedes ccerulescentes. 



Hab. (verosimiliter) in Nepalia. 



Mr. Gould regarded another of the Birds exhibited as the repre- 

 sentative of a new type among the Thrushes ; and characterized it as 

 the type of the genus 



* Actinodura. 



Rostrum subcompressum, subarcuatum, ad apicem subemargi- 



natum. 

 Nares basales, lineares, operculo magno tectae. 

 Alee molles, breviusculse, concavse : remige Ima brevissim^, 4tA 



5t&que longioribus. 



