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rica; figured in Griffith's Translation of and Commentary on Cuvier's 

 Begne Animal, VIII, 671. 



Anas erythrorhyncha, (L.) Two specimens. Ditto. 



*A. leucostigma, Kiippell. Ditto. 



*A. Euppelli, nobis, n. s. Sent as A. pgscilorhyncha, from Central 

 Africa. A smaller bird than A. po3Cilorb:yncha (vera, which was origi- 

 nally described from Ceylon), with closed wing measuring 9| in. : beak to 

 forehead If in. ; and tarse 1| in. Colour nearly as in the common Indian 

 bird, but with the head and neck uniformly streaked ; whereas A. pgeci- 

 lorhyncha has the crown and stripe through the eyes dusky, and super- 

 cilium and rest of head and neck whitish, with minute dusky specks ; 

 wing-speculum much the same; but A. pgecilorhyncha has the entire 

 outer web of the larger tertiaries white, while A. Kuppelli has only 

 their extreme outer border white. The rump and upper and lower tail- 

 coverts in A. pcecilorhyncha are uniformly dark-coloured, and brightly 

 glossed with green in the male ; in A. Euppelli they are variegated like 

 the back and belly. Lastly, the bill of the latter is more than propor- 

 tionally smaller, much less gibbous at base, and differently coloured. In 

 A. poecilorhyncha the gibbous triangle on either side of the advanced 

 frontal feathers is of a bright orange-colour ; the tip of the bill, with the 

 posterior half of the dertrum, intense yellow ; # and the rest black : in A. 

 Ruppelli the bill is chiefly yellow, with merely a portion of its upper 

 surface and the dertrum black. The legs also appear to be infuscated, 

 instead of bright coral-red as in the other. 



Phalacrocorax africanus, (Gm.) Adult, from Abyssinia. M. Mai- 

 herbe previously favoured us with an example of the young of this species, 

 from Algeria.f 



Of reptiles, one species only is sent, Psammosaurus scincus, (Merrem), 

 V. griseus, (Daudin), from Nubia : and 



Of fishes, only Chromis Bolti, Cuv„ from the Nile. 



* Erroneously coloured red in Hardwicke's figure. 



f The following presumed identifications may be here suggested. 



Drymoica inornata, (Sykes, 1832), with Dr. mystacea, Riippell (1835). 



Dr. gracilis, Riippell (1835), with Dr. lepida, nobis (1844). 



Melanocorypha bimaculata, Menetries, with M. toruuata, nobis, J. A. S. 

 XVI, 476. (The latter is not a true Melanocorypha, but the type of Calan- 

 drina, nobis.) 



Pelicanus crispus, Bruch, with P. phtlippensis (v. roseus et manillemis) , 

 Graelin : nee P. javanicus, Horsfield, which in India is equally commoi^ while 

 P. onocrotalus (verm) is rare. 



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