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Stevenson and Don Javier Ovalle, had arrived from Valparaiso ; and 

 the first division of a collection of Reptiles, indigenous to France, 

 had been received from the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris. 



Among the correspondence was a letter from Mr. Drummond Hay, 

 Corr. Memb., H.M. Charge d'Aifaires in Morocco, offering a pair of 

 Gazelles (Gaze/la Cuvieri, Ogilby ?) for the acceptance of the Society, 

 and promising to transmit, in the course of the summer, all the spe- 

 cies of Reptiles which are found in the neighbourhood of Tangier. 



The following papers were read : — 



1 . Notice of tw^o examples of the genus Gallxjs. By G. 

 R. Gray, F.L.S. etc., Senior Assistant in the Zoolo- 

 gical Department of the British Museum. 



(Aves, PL VII. VIII.) 



The known interest which the Zoological Society takes in the 

 introduction of Gallinaceous Birds has induced me to call the atten- 

 tion of the meeting to the following examples, which it is supposed 

 may prove species not hitherto noticed, as they exhibit some cha- 

 racters m the form and colouring of the hackles which are not found 

 in any published descriptions. Thus in the bird figured in pi. 7, 

 the hackle feathers are of a broad form, rounded at the apex, with 

 the centre of a shining violet, which colour is margined with deep 

 blue, broadest at the apex, and then extending in a point on the 

 shaft at the top of the feather ; these colours are externally margined 

 with fulvous, which is less prominent on the larger feathers near the 

 back and sides. The feathers of the back are prolonged and narrow, 

 of a black colour, broadly margined with fulvous ; the tail-feathers 

 are bronzy-black, with the prolonged coverts black, broadly margined 

 with violet ; the lesser wing-coverts deep fulvous ; the larger coverts 

 violet, narrowly margined with black, and in some cases with fulvous ; 

 the quills black, narrowly margined with brownish-white ; and the 

 secondaries black, margined with chestnut. The feathers of the 

 chest and under parts lengthened and pointed, of a black colour, more 

 or less margined with fulvous. 



The comb is large, extending far back, and is irregularly dentated 

 on the upper margin ; the throat naked and the wattle large and 

 pendulous, with a small wattle on each side near the base of the 

 lower manchble. 



This fine bird was said to be brought from Batavia, but I regret 

 to say its correct history is unknown. It has been thought right to 

 name it provisionally Gallus Temminckii, until it may be proved 

 otherwise than a species. 



In the Society's Garden will be seen a living example, which Mr. 

 Mitchell has pointed out to me, and which in some respects agrees 

 with that described above, except that its comb is not dentated, and 

 though the hackles are violet, yet they are narrowly lined down the 

 shaft and margined only with black, the end of each feather being 

 rather truncated and rounded. The breast and some of the feathers 

 of the thigh rufous, and those of the former with a black spot at 



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