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western horned pheasant (ceriomis melanocephalus), found on the 
slopes of the north-western Himalayas, and easily domesticated. 
The Nepalese pucras is among the most beautiful of all. There is 
also the tragopan, or singular horned pheasant (phasianus satyrrn), 
which is a most valuable and interesting creature, besides many 
varieties of ceriornis. But Icing of all pheasants, and by far the 
most gorgeous member of this family, is the famous monal, or 
Impeyan pheasant (lophophoms Ivipeyanus ), whose name signifies 
the “ bird of gold ’’ in its native country. It is not possible by any 
description to convey any idea of the exquisite hues of this 
beautiful bird. Its colour is a dark purple, changing into green and 
gold. It is as big as a hen turkey, of most tender and delicate 
flesh, and easily domesticated. Unquestionably it is the most 
valuable of all the Hymalayan birds for the purposes of the accli¬ 
matise^ and I trust that it will not be long before our society is able 
to exhibit some specimens of it in the Royal Park. I have already 
exceeded my allotted bounds, and will say no more than to urge 
upon the immediate attention of the society the peculiar claims of 
the game-birds of India to be added to the scanty list of the game¬ 
birds of Australia. There is scarcely any of the birds I have here 
mentioned which could not be adapted to some part or other of this 
colony, and I believe that they are worth all the money which we 
can possibly expend in their introduction. 
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE QUININE-YIELDING 
CHINCHONiE. 
Read by A. J. Duffield, Esq., at a Meeting held July 10, 1864. 
There is perhaps no drug which has rendered greater service to 
man than the febrifugal alkaloid known as quinine, or Peruvian 
bark ; and among the many noble results of the art of acclimatisation 
may be reckoned that of transplanting ehiuckona, or quinine-yielding 
trees, from Peru to Java by the Dutch, and still more successfully 
to India by ourselves. Quinine is a word derived from the compound 
Quichua word “ quina-quina," which signifies bark of bark ; the 
word quiua was corrupted by the Spaniards into china, which still 
retains its place among homceopatliists, but in Peru it is now allied 
cascarilla, which also means bark. About two centuries and a half 
ago, when the name of Jesuit was suggestive of all that is chivalrous 
in apostolic Christianity, thcie lay stretched on a bed in a monastery 
at Malacotas, a district in Peru some 300 miles south of the equator, 
a member of that order suffering the terrible agonies of terciaua. 
Very likely the Jesuit father had cured many diseases, and healed 
many wounds of the Indians of that region, for Jesuits then were 
masters of many noble arts ; and so when ho needed help and sym¬ 
pathy in his misery it came in the form of gratitude from tlieso 
people, who revealed to him the secret of this precious bark. A few 
years later, the Countess de Chinchona, the wife of the Viceroy of 
