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Chelidon Cashmeriensis, Gould. 



Considerably smaller than the common species Chelidon urbica, 

 but of precisely the same form and colour, except that the axillaries 

 and under part of the shoulder are dark brown instead of greyish- 

 white ; the feathered tarsi occur in both species ; crown of the 

 head, back, and shoulders black, with steel-blue reflexions ; tail 

 brownish-black ; throat, under surface, and rump white, stained with 

 brown on the flanks. 



Total length, 4-f inches ; wing, 3-Z- ; tail, 2 ; tarsi, -j 7 ^. 



Hab. Cashmere. 



Remark. — For our knowledge of this species we are indebted to 

 Ur. A. Leith Adams of the 22nd Regiment ; several of whose dis- 

 coveries in ornithology have already been recorded. 



3. Description of a new Species of the Genus Buteo 



from Mexico. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.L.S., 

 etc. 



Mr. J. H. Gurney has requested my attention to a specimen of 

 a species of the genus Buteo belonging to the Norwich Museum, 

 which I now exhibit. It was formerly in the collection of this 

 Society, and was originally received along with other birds from the 

 State of Tamaulipas, in Northern Mexico, by Mr. Gould. I have 

 never seen any other bird quite resembling it — the nearest ally known 

 to me being the Buteo albonotatus of G. R. Gray ; from which, how- 

 ever, on comparison, it appears to be perfectly distinct. I agree 

 with Mr. Gurney in considering it as probably undescribed ; and in 

 allusion to its nearly uniform sooty black plumage, propose to cha- 

 racterize it as 



Buteo fuliginosus, sp. nov. 



Saturate fuliginoso-brunneus unicolor ; capite, dorso medio et 

 alarum primariis extus paulo nigricantioribus : primariorum et 

 secundariorum vexillis internis subtus albis, sex aut septem 

 vittis nigris transversim notatis ; tectricibus alarum infe- 

 rioribus nigro-brunneis : cauda supra < fuliginoso-brunnea, vittis 

 quinque aut sex nigris obsolete transfasciata et nigro late 

 terminata ; cauda subtus alba et vittis dilutioribus : rostro 

 nigro, pedibus fiavis. 



Long, tota 15*5, alse 12*0, caudae 6'5, tarsi 2*6. 



Hub. In Mexico Boreali. 



This paper will be printed in the 'Transactions,' and illustrated 

 with a plate. 



4. List of Birds collected by Geo. Cavendish Taylor, 



Esq.., in the Republic of Honduras. By Philip 

 Lutley Sclater, M.A., F.L.S., etc. 



A small collection of Birds, some of which I now exhibit, was 



