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apply to the genus generally. That species walks pretty much in the manner of the 

 Myrmecophaga jubata of South America, on the soles of the hind-feet, while the huge 

 claws of the fore-feet are bent up against the palms, the animal resting not exactly on 

 its knuckles, but on the basal part of its fore-claws. In M. leptura, Nobis, loc. cit., 

 however, wherein the claws of the hind-feet are much more developed, it would ap- 

 pear that both fore and hind claws turn inward when the creature walks ; and in M. 

 Javanica it appears very doubtful whether the animal does not walk on the palms of 

 its fore-feet, with the claws straight out in front, as well as on the soles of its hind-feet. 

 At all events, it was found impracticable to double up the fore-feet of the two latter 

 species, as represented in Lieut. Tickell's sketches of M. brachyura ; whereas two ex- 

 amples of the latter were mounted without difficulty in the attitudes represented by 

 that observer. 



P. 456. Spizaetus albogularis, Tickell, has, as 1 have been informed by Mr. 

 Jerdon, been recently described in M. Guerin's Magasin de Zoologie by the name 

 Asur Kienierii, received from the Himalaya (?). The latter specific appellation holds 

 precedence. 



P. 457. Strix lugubris, Tickell ; Ninox Nipalensis, Hodgson. " Decidedly, I 

 think, the Noctua hirsuta, Tern., PI. Col. 239 (289?)". Jerdon. Also Strix scutulata, 

 Raffles, Lin. Trans. XIII, 280, which name I presume to have the priority. 



P. 459. The Parus Nipalensis, Hodgson, there described, is the P. atriceps, 

 Horsfield, of Mr. Jerdon's catalogue. 



P. 460. Petrocincla Manillensis, Auct., and P. pandoo aut maal of Sykes. The birds 

 referred to under these denominations are most puzzling, and I now incline to suspect 

 that these if not four closely allied species will eventually prove to inhabit South- 

 eastern Asia and its islands. In loc. cit. t I have described a male from Luc/mia, 

 which is unquestionably the Turdus Manillensis, Gmelin, while there is every reason 

 to presume that the T. eremita, Gmelin, refers to its female, as Petrocincla maal 

 of Sykes is the female of his P. pandoo. The Society has just received a male and 

 female obtained in the vicinity of Macao, which would seem to be of the same species. 

 In these three specimens the tail is perfectly squared, and both the males have the 

 under-parts from the breast bright ferruginous, each feather more or less tipped with 

 cyaneous, then bMck, and finally with white : axillaries and under wings-coverts also 

 ferruginous in the Chinese specimen, but the axillaries only in that from Luc/mia; 

 and the female from Macao has likewise a conspicuous rufous tinge on the under 

 wing-coverts : tibial feathers cyaneous in both, and a considerable admixture of the 

 same on the posterior flank -feathers. The Lu^onia bird has its plumage worn, that 

 from Macao recently renewed; but the mottlings were originally somewhat different 

 in the two. In the latter each feather of the upper-parts has a conspicuous subtermi- 

 nal black bar, and is tipped with white on the middle of the back, scapularies and 

 wings, and with greyish-brown on the crown, neck, and fore-part of the back; these mot- 

 tlings becoming nearly obsolete on the rump : the feathers of the breast are tipped 

 with white, having a subterminal narrow blackish bar, of a semi-circular form or 

 tending a little to be angulated in some. In the Luc/mia specimen, these black 

 subterminal bars on the fore-part of the neck and breast are much broader, and of a 

 V-like shape, enclosing a triangular fulvous-white spot; this white being purer and 

 more developed in the other : the feathers of the upper-parts, also, are merely tipped 



