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dedlj' intermediate, exhibiting characters belonging to both. The 

 head, neck, and breast wei'e of a ricli dark maroon colour, the feathers 

 on the breast showing the darker crescentic tips ; the upjier part of 

 the tarsi were covered with feathers ; the back and wings mottled 

 blackish gray, like that of a young Black Cock after his first moult, 

 but with some indications of brown ; the feathers of the tail rather 

 short, but straight, pointed, graduated, and pheasant-like. Mr. Yar- 

 rel also remarked that this bird more closely resembled the Hybrid 

 discovered by Gilbert White than any of the previous specimens 

 which he had examined. 



Mr. Gould then brought before the notice of the Meeting a valu- 

 able collection of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains, recently pre- 

 sented to the Society's Museum, by James Farell, Esq., consisting of 

 114 specimens, among which he characterised the following new 

 species. 



Athene erytiiroptekus. Ath. disco fadali, capite corporeque li- 

 neis fuscis et fulvescenti-albis, alternate fasciatis ; lateribvs gula, 

 femorihus crissoque cinerescenti-albis ; primariis secondariisqtie 

 rvfis et fuscis fasciis distinctis, latioribtis quam corporis ; caudd 

 caryophillaccd fasciis angustis albis crebre notatd ; rostro jicdi- 

 biisqtie flavescenti-olivaceis. 



Long. tot. 91 unc. ; ala, 45 ; cauda, 3 ; tarsi, l^. 



Obs. Nearly allied to but less in size than Athene cuculoides {Noctua 

 cuculoides, Proc. of Comm. Sci. and Corr. of Zool. Soc, Part I.) 



TiTRDUS UNicoLOR. Turd. cinereus ; nbdomine medio, crissoqve al- 

 bis ; kumeris stibtiis rufis ; rostra pedibusque livido-fvscis. 



liong. tot. 9^ unc. ; rostri, 1 ; ala;, 3^ ; cauda, 'i{\ ; tarsi, 1^. 



Ohs. Size of the Common Thrush. The young differs in having 

 the gray strongly tinged with brownish olive, and the throat grayish 

 white, bounded down each side with spots of reddish brown. 



Oreocincla I'ARViROSTRis, Or. capite, nuchd, pectore, lateribus 

 corporeque supra oUvuceo-fuscis ; singulis plumis versus apiceni 

 nitide cervino lavatis, et nigro-fusco late 7narginatis ; primariis 

 obscure fuscis, piogoniis externis nitide ca-vino marginatis , pogoniis 

 internis ad bases cervino-albis ; tcctricibus majoribus alarum ob- 

 scure cervinis; aid spuriosd eodem colore cxterne margiiiatd; caudd 

 fused margine subfusco, apiceque cinerescenti-albo ; guld, abdo- 

 mine medio, tiropygio, crissoque albis ; rostro pedibusque corneo- 

 fuscis. 



Long. tot. 10 unc; rostri, 1 ; ala, 5^ ; cauda, 4; tarsi, l^. 



Obs. This species has all the characters of the Oreocincla varia and 

 0. Whiteii, but may be readily distinguished from them, by its much 

 smaller size and its very diminutive bill. 



CiNCLiDiA. Genus novum. 



Rostrum caput longitudine sequans, leviter arcuatum, ad apicem 

 emarginatum ad latera compressum ; ncires basales, lateralcs, in 



