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common C. sulphtjrea of Timor, the closed wing of which, measures only 

 9 in. ; and which is readily distinguished by its much shorter crest, and 

 by the deep yellow spot on the cheeks. The last is by far the commonest 

 species in the Calcutta bird-bazar, and sells at a much lower price than 

 the others. I have seen an individual variety of it, having the crest of a 

 bright flame-colour. 



Here also I may notice a remarkable species of Pelican, which is now 

 living in the menagerie of the Maharaja of Burdwan, in company with 

 specimens of P. javanicus and P. crispus. It is generally similar to P. 

 javanicus, but has the frontal skin curiously inflated, so as to present 

 somewhat the appearance of a largely developed frontal knob of Anser 

 cygnoides, only feathered ; and a further difference consists in the naked 

 skin of the cheeks and pouch being yellowish- white, whereas in P. java- 

 nicus that of the cheeks is deep purplish or livid-carneous, and of the 

 pouch intense yellow. If distinct and new, P. inflatifrons, nobis. 



Lastly, I may here notice that in the beginning of last April, I procured 

 a fresh specimen (from the vicinity of Calcutta) of Cyornis banyumas, 

 (Horsfield) ; a well known Javanese bird, only once known to have been 

 procured before in India, — viz. by Mr. Jerdon in the JN^ilgiris, his speci- 

 men being also now in the Society's collection. The Calcutta specimen is 

 a young male, that had just assumed the plumage of maturity ; but still 

 retaining some of the first or nestling wing-coverts. 



13. Capt. Berdmore, Schwe Gyen, Pegu. A number of living Tortoises, 

 comprising several specimens of Testudo elongata, nobis, remarkable 

 for the yellowish- white colour of the head and neck. 



14. T. C. Jerdon, Esq. Sagur. A bottle of reptiles, comprising one 

 remarkable new species, which may be described as a Calotes, with enor- 

 mous head, short and thick body, the tail not exceeding the body in 

 length, and the toes also short and strong ; a slight nuchal crest, and 

 medial dorsal ridge composed of a row of high-keeled scales ; two detached 

 tufts of sincipital spines, one contiguous to the tympanum, and each com- 

 prising one principal spine. Colour olive, with a row of large round dark 

 spots, bordered and set off with white, along the back and anterior half 

 of the tail, continued as simple indistinct dark spots to the end of the 

 tail ; the white broader and forming a kind of pale spot on each side of 

 the neck ; and anterior to this first large spot is a small one upon the 

 crest : lower-parts yellowish-white, the throat regularly speckled with 

 pale dusky : a conspicuous oblique white band passing from beneath the 

 eye to the angle of the mouth. Scales of the body in transverse bands, 

 the oblique tendency much less conspicuous than in Calotes. I shall 



