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*Carbo albiventer, Tickell: female. Length about twenty-nine inches, of wing 

 eleven inches, and tail (consisting of fourteen feathers,) seven inches; bill to forehead 

 (in a straight line) two inches and a half, and to gape three inches and seven-eighths; 

 tarse two inches and a half; longest toe and claw three inches and three-quarters. 

 Colour of the whole under-parts white, but apparently changing to dusky on the fore- 

 neck and breast ; flanks dusky brown; upper-parts dingy dark-brown, but a number 

 of new feathers appearing on the scapularies and shoulders of the wings, dark silvery 

 grey with a moderately broad black margin, analogous to what is observed in various 

 other species; feathers of the crown and sides of the neck slightly margined laterally 

 with whitish ; bill dusky above, the rest pale ; gular skin yellow, and feet and mem- 

 branes black. 



From M. M. Liautaud (Chirurgien de Marine) and Reymoneng (Eleve) of His 

 French Majesty's Corvette, the Danaide, I have to announce the presentation of 

 a collection of bird skins and of shells from various regions; the former consisting of, 

 firstly, the following European species, killed in France.- — 



*Alcedo ispida. 



*Turdus torquatus : female. 



Oriolus Galbula, ditto. 



Sturnus vulgaris. 



* Charadrus pluvialis. 



From Panama (Republic of New Granada), 



* Tanagra episcopus. 



From Chili (neighbourhood of Valparaiso), 



*Turdus Magellanicus, Vigors, P. Z. S. 1830, 14; being a new locality, I be- 

 lieve, for this species, which is allied to the well known Robin Thrush of North 

 America. 



From Bone Bay, in the Caroline Islands, 



* Ptilinopus purpuratus, Swainson : the example of which most elegant species, 

 heretofore known as an inhabitant of O Tahiti, has unfortunately been denuded by 

 insects of the skin of the fore-part of the forehead and throat. 

 From Luqonia, of the Philippines, 



Petrocincla Manillensis : being the specimen before noticed in my account of the 

 collection of bird-skins presented by Lieutenant Tickell. 



*Ceblepyris ccerulescens, Nobis. Length nine inches and a half, of wing four in- 

 ches five-eighths, and tail three inchesanda half ; bill to forehead (through the feathers) 

 fifteen-sixteenths of an inch, and to gape an inch one-eighth ; tarse three-quarters of an 

 inch : fourth, fifth, and third primaries successively longest ; outermost tail-feathers 

 not half an inch shorter than the middle ones. Colour of the upper parts black, the 

 feathers edged with bluish dusky, paler on the forehead, and inclining to greyish 

 on the rump; tail and greater wing-feathers wholly black.- lower parts uniform 

 dark greyish-dusky; the tips of the outermost tail-feathers paler underneath: bill and 

 feet black, as are also the lores. 



From Captain C. S. Bonnevie, of the Norwegian Royal Navy, — 



Specimens of Lophastur* , Nobis, n. g ? Allied to Pernis, but wanting the peculiar 



* This may possibly be the genus Butcopetnis adverted to by Mr. Jameson, in Calc. Joum. Nat. 

 Hist., No. III. page. 320. 



