440 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [No. 5. 



S. India, having the crest more developed than we have ever seen in 

 Bengal specimens. 



2. From Babu Rajendra Mallicka. A fresh specimen of Tanygnathtjs 

 sumatranus, mas. ; differing from the female in having a coral-red upper 

 mandible instead of a fleshy -white one. 



E. Blyth. 



LlBRARY. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the last 

 meeting. 



Presented. 



Gelehrte Anzeigen. Vols. 26, 27. — By the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences, Munich. 



Abhandlungen der Koeniglichen Bayerischen Academie der Wissen- 

 schaften, part 2 of Vols. 21, 22, and 23. — By the same. 



Bulletin der Koniglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, JSTos. 1 — 52 of 

 1848. — By the same. 



Denkrede auf Joseph Gerhard Buccarini gelesen in der offentlichen 

 Sitzung der Koniglichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 

 28 Marz, 1848, von Carl. Fried. Phil. v. Martius. 4to. Pamphlet.— By 



THE SAME. 



Denkrede auf J. J. Berzelius, gehalten in der offentlichen Sitzung der 

 Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften am 28 November 

 1848, von. Dr. C. F. P. v. Martius.— By the same. 



Denkrede auf die Chemie in ihrem Verhaltnisse zur Physiologie und 

 Pathologic Von D. Max Peltenkofer. 4to. Pamphlet. — By the same. 



Ueber das ethische Element im Rechtsprincip. Von Professor Buchner. 

 4to. Pamphlet. — By the same. 



Memoires de 1' Academie des Sciences, &c. de Lyon for 1848 to 1850. — 

 By the Academy. 



Indische Studien, von Dr. A. Weber, Volumes I. and II. part 2. — By 

 the Author. 



Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandisehen Gesellschaft, Vol. V. parts 

 3, 4. — By the German Oriental Society. 



Ardea occidentalis, Andubon, presents an instance of a purely white true 

 Heron which assuredly cannot be referred to the group of Egrets. We should 

 add that a Sicilian specimen presented to the Society by M. Alfred Malherbe, as 

 Ardea veranii, auct, of Africa and S. E. Europe, differs in no respect whatever 

 from examples killed in Bengal and Java. 



