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Zoological Miscellany . 
tail slightly rounded, first quill rather shorter than the second, with fourth 
longest ; tarsus black; bill to gape lOJ, to forehead 8J ; tarsus 10 lines. 
Total length 6 inches. 
Red-breasted Weaver. Ploceus nitens. Shin blue-black, lower 
part of throat and chest bright crimson; wing and tail, lower part of 
back and abdomen black brown; bill black, (white at the tip injured,) 
tarsus black ; tail slightly rounded. Total length 6 J inches. Bill to 
gape lOJ, to forehead 8^; tarsus 10 lines. 
White Rump Chcetura. ChcBtura hicolor. Blue**black, duller on the 
throat and beneath ; long upper tail coverts, hinder part of chest, abdo- 
men, vent and under tail coverts pure white with black shaft to the feathers ; 
tail even, the shaft longely spinose; under plumage black brown; bill 
short, depressed. Length 4j; expanse of wing 11 inches; bill to gape 
5, to front 2 lines. Inhab. Africa. 
Sabine's Thamnophilus. Thamnophilus Sabini. Blue-black ; back, 
rump, chin and beneath, under wing-coverts and base of the inner edge 
of the quills pure white ; quills black, bluish edged ; tail obscurely 
banded ; bill large, conical, long ; culmen very wide and rounded, 
extended some distance up the forehead. Young birds in moult with 
brown feathers intermixed with the black, and the white of the back 
and chest varied with brown. Length ; wings 3 inches; bill 13; 
tarsus 11^ lines. This bird has very nearly the bill of Barita, but longer, 
-and it has the nostrils, nasal groove, the false first quill, the geographical 
distribution and colouring of the Lanii, it will probably form a new 
section of that family. 
XII. Description of a new species of Chameleon discovered by Capt. 
Owen, in j^frica. - 
Three-horned Chameleon. Chameleo Oweni, tab. 4, old and young. 
Pale brown, marbled and lined with black ; head with three long, coni- 
cal, slightly curved horns covered with a sheath, the front one placed 
between the nostrils, rather the lai gest, the side ones on the front of the 
eyebrows ; scales rather large, pentangular ; body with small, nearly 
uniform scales, with a few smaller scales intermingled between them, 
those of the dorsal line are nearly square ; tail slender. The young are 
more distinctly marbled and the horns shorter. Inhab. Fernandoo Poo, 
Capt. Owen. 
XIII. Description of twelve new genera of Fish, discovered by Gen* 
Hardwicke, in India, the greater part in the British Museum. 
Gen. Temera. Fam. Raiadw. 
Body orbicular ; ventral fins large, produced nearly square ; tail very 
short, end compressed, finned ; dorsal fin, none ; most nearly allied to 
Torpedo, but differs in having no dorsal fin, in which character it is most 
nearly allied to Marhe of Caup ; a genus not noticed by Cuvier, which 
has only one dorsal fin while Torpedo has two. 
Hardwicke' s Temera. Temera Hardwickii, n. s. Plain brown with 
irregular black streaks. Inhab. Penang. Length 6 inches 
