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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. • January 9, 1868. Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. Mr. P. L. Sclater exhibited a drawing (Plate I.) of a new species of Impeyan, lately named b y M . Albert Geoffroy St.-Hilaire Lophophorus Vhuysi*, taken from the original specimen which had been recently purchased hy the Trustees of the British Museum. This skin had been transmitted to France by M . Dabry, French Consul at Hankow, and was stated by its describer to have been obtained in Northern China. But, according to information Mr. Sclater had received from the British Consul at Hankow through Mr. J. J. Stone, the collection of which this bird formed a part had been really formed by one of the French Missionary priests resident at Llassa in Tibet, and its natural habitat was probably some portion of the northern slope of the great Himalayan range, where it would represent the Lophophorus refulgens of the southern facies of the same range. Mr. Sclater gave the following short diagnoses of the two species:- L. refulgens : cristce plumis spatulatis : cauda unicolore rufo-castanea : ex mont. Himalayan, facie merid. L. l'huysi: cristce plumis integris: cauda ceneo-viridi, albo stellata : ex mont. Himalayan, facie boreali. * Bull. Soc. Accl. ser. 2, t. iii. p. 223 (1866). PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1868, No. I. |