vill PREFACE. 
An adult bird had the neck, back, wing-coverts and 
tail reddish liver brown ; the head, both above and below, 
rather lighter in colour, the feathers of the upper part 
of the head and neck lanceolate; the primaries almost 
black ; under surface of the body very little hghter in 
colour than the back; all the feathers white at the base ; 
legs, toes, and claws as in the young bird. 
The whole length twenty-seven and a half inches; the 
wing, from the anterior joimt, twenty-three and a half 
inches; the fourth and fifth quill-feathers nearly equal 
in length, but the fifth rather the longest in the wing. 
The wings when closed reach to the end of the tail. 
Willughby, in his Ornithology, has accurately described 
this species at page 63, under the name of the Morphno 
congener of Aldrovandus; and adds, that “this bird took 
the name of Morphnos from the spots of the feathers, 
whence also it may in Latine not unfitly be called 
Nevia.” 
The young bird is the Falco nevius and maculatus of 
Gmelin. 
The Wuire-wincep Crosspity. Loxia leucoptera ; vol. 
li. page 28. 
At the evening meeting of the Zoological Society on 
Tuesday, Sept. 28rd, 1835, Edward Fitton Hsq., exhi- 
bited a fine male of this species in its red plumage, which 
he had picked up dead upon the shore at-Exmouth on 
the 17th inst. The bird appeared to have been injured 
on the back of the head, and had crept into a hole in one 
