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I would rather consider this as a variety of P. loricatus, R. ; but 

 as Mr. Cuming, who has a particular interest for this genus, said 

 that he was convinced it was a distinct species, I give the description 

 of it. 



9. Paludomus Swainsoni. Testa ovata, solida, olivacea, costis 

 nigris spiralibus omata, obsolete spiraliter et longitudinaliter 

 striata; spira exserta ; anfr actus convexi, ad suturam nigri- 

 cantem depressi ; apertura ovata, albida, obsolete dentata, in- 

 ter 'dum fusco-maculata. 



Long. 25, lat. 23 ; apert. long. 21, lat. 12 mill. 

 Allied to pictus ; but differs in having black ribs. 



10. Paludomus nodulosus. Testa oblongo-ovata, Icete olivacea, 

 longitudinaliter nigro fulgurata ; spira exserta ; anfractus 

 costis tuberculosis spiraliter cingulati, sutura crenulata ; aper- 

 tura subcircularis, nigra, intus albida, lineis nigris pellucen- 

 tibus. 



Long. 27, lat. 21 ; apert. long. 20, lat. \(j\ mill. 



3. List of Birds collected by Mr. Thomas Bridges, Cor- 

 responding Member of the Society, in the Valley 

 of San Jose, in the State of California. By Philip 

 lutley sclater, m.a., f.l.s. etc. 



Mr. Bridges has requested me to bring before the notice of the 

 Society a series of birds which he collected in the Valley of San Jose', 

 at the southern extremity of the Bay of San Francisco. There are 

 examples only of 33 species, but many of these are interesting — the 

 W. American forms being very little known in Europe, although 

 the Museums in the United States are well supplied with specimens 

 resulting from the many recent expeditions into the west. The only 

 list of Californian birds at all complete is that published by Dr. 

 Gambel in the first volume of the second series of the Journal of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. M. Cassin's beau- 

 tiful work on the 'Birds of California, Oregon, &c.' has been unfor- 

 tunately discontinued for the present, at the termination of the first 

 volume. Had that been brought to a conclusion, there would have 

 been much less still wanting to be known concerning the ornithology 

 of the western regions of N. America. 



Mr. Bridges' collection contains examples of the following spe- 

 cies : — 



1. ACCIPITER FUSCUS (Gm.). 



2. Tinnunculus sparverius (L.). 



3. Circus hudsonius (L.). 



