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Zoological Miscellany. 
placed alternately with each other, the front of the last whorl with spi- 
ral ribs, the hinder of which are nodulose ; mouth ovate, front rather 
expanded, dilated ; outer lip expanded, rounded, crenulated ; axis 2J 
inches, diam. 10 lines ; operculum ovate, horny; apex subspiral. 
Freeth Melania. Melania Freethii. Shell ovate turreted, truncated, 
black, smooth, polished ; whorls nearly flat ; suture scarcely impressed ; 
mouth ovate, slightly expanded in front; throat brown ; axis 17, diam. 
7, mouth 7 lines. Young, conical, black, turreted, truncated, very mi- 
nutely spirally striated, last whorl subcarinate ; axis 8, diam. 4 lines. 
Fernandoo Poo, dedicated to Colonel Freeth, through whose kindness I 
received these and many other shells. Like M. lavigata, but not white 
nor white and yellow. 
Black JVeritina. Meritina atra. Shell ovate, globose, thick, smooth, 
black ; spire short, conical ; apex grooved ; mouth white, very oblique 
with regard to the axis ; inner lip finely denticulated in the middle ; 
outer lip slightly expanded, margin horizontal ; axis and diam. 7 lines. 
Most like JV. Virginea (and JV. reclivatus. Say), but uniform black, and 
the outer lip not bent up towards the last whorl. Inhab. Fernandoo Poo. 
Owen Kerilina. Keritina Owenii. Merita Oiueniana, Gray. Wood, 
Cat. Suppl. t. 8, f. 8, and N. Owenii, f. 16 ? imperfect. Shell ovate, 
then pellucid, brown netted ; mouth half ovate ; inner lip smooth, the 
front and hinder angle of the outer and the inner lip becoming much ex- 
panded, making the shell distorted by age ; spire very small, lateral often 
carious; operculum, thin shelly. 
Description of some Birds discovered by Edward Bloxam, Esq ., 
during the Voyage of Capt. Lo?’cZ Byron, R.M.,now in the British 
Museum. 
Ruddy Finch. Fringilla rufa. Bloxam, Byron, Voy. 250. F. coc- 
cinea, Lath . } ? Body red-foxy ; lores blackish ; wing and tail olive- 
brown ; wing-covert, quills, and tail red-edged, inner edge of quills, and 
under wing-covert white ; bill short, triangular, conic, tip straight, 
acute, whitish; feet brown ; tarsus 9 lines Mr. Bloxam describes “ the 
tongue as short, tubular, and divided filaments at the end !” Inhab. 
Sandwich Islands. 
Bloxam Crested Warbler. Sylvia Bloxami. Olive-brown ; sides of 
neck, throat, and chest white, with a black streak down the shaft of each 
feather ; head and ears black ; forehead white-streaked, crown with a 
crest of from four to six long, slender, recurved feathers ; outer web of 
the outermost, and tip of second tail-feather; the edge of the outer 
larger wing-covep,ts and of the primaries, white ; belly, vent, and under 
wing-coverts yellowish- white ; bill slender, black, end compressed, 
slightly nicked ; base depressed, above keeled ; wing short, first quill 
short, second rather shorter than the third and longest ; tail rather long, 
rounded ; tarsi long ; toes short. Length inches ; bill 6 ; tarsus 9 ; 
middle toe 6; wing 23 lines. Inhab. Chili. Parus Chilensis, Bloxam 
MSS. This bird should range with Regulus Omnicohr, Viellot, which 
