20 Zoological Miscellany, 
beyond the tail ; bill, black; lores, base of the upper jaw to the nostrils, 
and a short band at the base of the lower jaw, green; thighs and sides of 
legs, pale brown ; shields on the front and hinder part of the tarsus and 
on the top of the toes, and the claws black. Length about 33 inches ; 
of bill to gape, 5g ; thighs, 4^ ; tarsus, 5; middle toe and claws, 
inches. 
Indian white Heron. Jlrdea Orienialis. Snow-white; crown, plain; 
feathers of lower part of neck, long, lanceolate ; of loins, long, with a 
very loose web, rather longer than the body and recurved ; bill, slender, 
black; lores and base of both jaws for a short distance yellow green ; 
.thighs, tarsus and claws uniform black; toes, flesh colour. Length 19; 
bill to gape, 4 inches ; thighs, 2| ; tarsus, 4J ; middle toe and claw, 3 
inches. 
These species differ from Ardea candissima, of America, and from 
Ardea Garzetta, of Europe, in their larger size, in the relative propor- 
tions of their parts, and in the colour of their bill and legs. 
Description of a new Genus of Percoid Fish, discovered hy Mr. 
Samuel Stutchbury, in the Pacific Sea, and now in the British 
Museum. 
Gen. 1. Micropus. 
Body ovate, compressed, skin thick, naked, with minute filiform pro- 
cesses, lateral line slanting, subdorsal; head ovate, suborbital bone ending 
in a strong spine ; pre-operculum strongly toothed ; opercula with two 
teeth; the interoperculum ending in a spine; mouth small, protractile; 
jaws with velvet-like teeth ; palate toothless ; gill rays 5 ; dorsal fin large, 
single deeply nicked, or double, hinder rays, two cut : pectoral fins, 
small, slightly pedicelled, upper rays very thin, lower ones short, 
strong, simple and jointed; ventral fins minute under the pectorals; anal 
fin long ; tail short, rounded ; allied to Blepsias and Apistes. 
Spotted Micropus. Micropus maculatus. Dorsal fins two, close 
together ; body covered with bristle-like processes, yellow red spotted ; 
operculum obscurely spinose; preoperculum, 4 toothed; D. 8 — 12. 
C. 5 -V, A. 11, V. -i, P. 14. Length 1^, height f inches. Island of 
Hao. 
One finned Micropus. Micropus unipinna. Dorsal fin 1, with a 
slight lobe between the spinous and dorsal rays; body villose, brown, 
spotless, beneath paler ; operculum distinctly spined ; preoperculum 4 
toothed; D. 8—12, P. 14, C. A. 11 V. A. 
