102 



115! Pelecanus Onocrotalus, Linn. Frequents the marshes near- 

 Smyma, where it remains during tlie winter. 



*1 16. Phalacrocorax Carbo, Briss. Abounds in the harbour of Con- 

 stantinople, and roosts on the roofs of the houses. 

 *117. Phalacrocorax pygmceus, Briss. Shot near Smyrna in winter. 



118. Cygnus Olor, Linn. Visited Smyrna Bay in the winter. 



119. Clangula vu/garis, Leach. Smyrna, during the winter. ^ 



120. FuUgula ferina, Steph. Smyrna, during the winter. 



121. FuUgula cristata, Steph. Smyrna, during the winter. 

 *122. Rhynchapsis clypeata, Shaw. Smyrna, during the winter. 



123. Tadorna Vulpanser, Flem. Smyrna, during the winter. 



124. Querquedula acuta, Selby. Smyrna, during the winter. 



125. Anas Boschas, Linn. Smyrna, during the winter. 



126. Mareca Penelope, Selby. Smyrna, during the winter. 



127. Tadorna Rutila, Steph. Frequent in the poultry shoi)s at 

 Smyrna, but owing to the Turkish practice of cutting the throats of 

 birds as eoon as shot, I was unable to obtain a perfect specimen. 



128. Querquedula Crecca, Steph. Smyrna, in the winter. 

 *129. Mergus albellus, Linn. Smyrna, in the winter." 



Mr. Strickland also exhibited the skin of a variety of the common 

 Fox, Canis Vulpes, Linn., which occurs near Smyrna: together with 

 a specimen of the Lepus hybridus. Pall., from the South of Russia, 

 purchased of a furrier at Rome. 



Also a specimen of an Argonauta, Linn., which was brought to him 

 in Cephalonia with the animal alive in it. Mr. Strickland stated 

 that he kept it for some hours alive, and when dead it fell out of 

 the shell with its own weight ; proving that there is no muscular 

 connexion between the animal and the shell. In this instance the 

 shell did not contain any ova, 



Mr. Ogilby called the attention of the Society to two Antelopes 

 at present living in the Gardens, which he regarded as the Koba and 

 Kob of Buffon. He expressed his pleasure at having it in his power 

 to identify two animals originally described imperfectly, and of which 

 the zoological characters have been hitherto almost unknown ; ob- 

 serving that the re-discovery of an old species was at all times more 

 gratifying to him, and, he considered, more beneficial to the science 

 of zoology, than the original description of twenty that were new ; 

 because, whilst it equally added an authentic species to the substan- 

 tive amount of our knowledge, it had the further merit of dispeUing 

 the many doubts and surmizes which unavoidably obscured the sub- 

 ject. Mr. Ogilby entered at some length into the identification of 

 these two interesting species, referring to the scanty materials afforded 

 by the original descriptions of Buffon and Daubenton, and pointing 

 out the various other Ruminants vdth which subsequent naturalists 

 had confounded them ; at the same time reserving his more detailed 

 demonstration of this subject, and his descriptions of the animals 

 themselves, for the monograph which he has been long preparing for 

 the Transactions of the Society. Among other errors, he pointed 

 out that the Koba of Pennant {A. Senegalensis) was the Caama ; 



