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with greenish-yellow ; under, yellowish-white. Tail greyish- 

 black, and nearly square ; length 3-J inches, and consisting of 9 

 feathers; upper wing-coverts greenish-yellow, under greyish- 

 white ; feathered to the tarsi. Tarsus, length 8 lines, and co- 

 vered by 5 very broad scutellae ; middle toe 9 lines. — Hob. 

 West India Islands. In the shortness and form of the bill, in 

 the length of wings in proportion to the tail, in the arrangement 

 of the quill-feathers of wing, the external toe united to middle 

 by first joint, and the form and size of the scutella? 5 this bird, 

 the Professor remarked, seemed to hold a prominent place be- 

 tween the genus Pyrgita and Tanagra. 



The Professor applied the specific term Tytleri, in honour of 

 the late Lieutenant Tytler, a very active ornithologist, whose 

 labours in India have added much to the interest of the Royal 

 Museum of the University of Edinburgh, to a Rubecola which 

 he described ; and remarked, that although it agreed in the 

 grouping of its colours with the common robin, yet, in the 

 form of the bill, il presented as it were a link between the ge~ 

 nus Rubecola and Phoenecura. Was sent to the Royal Museum 

 by Lieutenant Tytler from the Himrnalayan Mountains. 



A series of specimens of the Muscipeta paradisi, Cuv., were 

 exhibited by the Professor, for the purpose of pointing out that 

 the Muscipeta indica is but a sexual variety ; and he stated this 

 from the examination of a large series of specimens lately re- 

 ceived from the Himmaleh Mountains, some of which shewed 

 the passage of the one into the other. In its distribution this 

 species is very wide, occurring spread over all India and China ; 

 and identically the same species is found in Africa. 



A fine live specimen of the Noctua nivea, hitherto confounded 

 with the Noctua nyctea, it was announced had been found in 

 Orkney. 



At this meeting Dr Jr.an Llacayo, of Madrid, was chosen a 

 foreign corresponding member. 



Proceedings of the Society for the Encouragement of the Useful 

 Arts in Scotland. 



Wth March 1835.— Mr Professor Forbes, V. P. in the Chair 

 —-The following communications were laid before the Society : 



1. Description of a Plan by which the Study of Practical Che- 



