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August 8, 1843. 
Prof. Owen in the Chair. 
A letter from the Society’s Corresponding Member, H. J. Ross, 
Esq., was read. ‘This letter is dated Malta, July 3, 18438, and an- 
nounces the receipt of various packages forwarded to Mr. Ross by 
the Society. This gentleman offers his services in collecting for the 
Society at Malta, and gives an account of a species of Petrel found 
in that island, which he thinks is possibly new to science. He ob- 
serves, moreover, that in his former letters he had omitted to state 
that the Common Nuthatch (Sitta Europea) is common at Kaipariah. 
Mr. Fraser stated that he had received the following observations 
from Mr. George Loddiges, relating to some species of Humming 
Birds described in the Society’s Proceedings :— 
Ornismya vestita, Revue Zoologique, 1838, p. 314; 1839, p. 18; 
1840, p. 8, is your Trochilus uropygialis, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1840, p.15. 
O. heteropogon, Revue Zool. 1839, p. 354; Mag. de Zool., 1840, 
pl. 12, Oiseaux, is your 7. coruscus. 
O. microrhyncha, Boissenneau, Revue Zool. 1839, p. 354, Dec. ; 
Mag. de Zool. 1840, pl. 16, Oiseaux, is your T. brachyrhynchus. 
O. ensifera, Revue Zool. 1839, p. 354, Dec. ; Mag. de Zool. 1840, 
pl. 15, Oiseaux, is your T. Derbianus. 
O. Bonapartie, Revue Zool. 1840, p. 6, is my 7. pecan The 
female only is described. 
O. Temminckii, Revue Zool. 1839, p. 354, Dec.; Mag. de Zool. 
1840, pl. 14, Oiseaux, is my 7. cyanopterus. 
O. Guerinii, Boissenneau, Revue Zool. 1840, p. 7, Jan., is your 
T. parvirostris. The female only is in both described. 
O. La Fresnayi, Revue Zool. 1840, p. 8, Jan., is your T. flavi- 
caudatus. 
O. Allardi, Bourcier, Revue Zool. 1839, p. 294, Oct.; O. Allardi, 
Bourc., Anal. des Sci. Physiques de Lyon, iii. p. 226; O. Pauline, 
Boissenneau, Revue Zool. 1839, p. 355, Dec. ; Mag. de Zool., pl. 13, 
1840, D’Orbigny’s smaragdinocollis, is my T. Tyrianthinus, 
Mr. Fraser read a portion of a letter from the Earl of Derby, Pre- 
sident, relating to the hatching and rearing of Fire-back Pheasants 
in his Lordship’ s menagerie. 
A species of Cercopithecus recently added to the Society’s mena- 
gerie was exhibited. Of this species, the Secretary observed, he had 
seen several specimens, and that in the Leyden Museum it is labelled 
as the Cercopithecus lunulatus of Kuhl. 
August 22nd, September 12th and 26th, and October 10th, 
no meetings were held. 
No. CXXVII,—Procrepines or THE Zoo. Soc. 
