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Show 788 MR. H. ADAMS ON NEW SHELLS FROM THE RED SEA. [Nov. 15, throat. The second specimen agrees with the first, except in having the coverts of the primary quill-feathers white. This, however, we regard as probably due to incipient albinism, as one of the primaries in the left wing is also partially white, and there are likewise traces of the same colour on the under wing-coverts. 93. UROCHROMA DILECTISSIMA, sp. nov. (Plate XLVII.) Leete viridis, pileo cyanescente: maculis tribus frontalibus et una utrinque postoculari, cum tectricibus alarum externis pro majore parte et campterio toto coccineis : subalaribus fiavissimis : gula flavicante: caudee rectricibus aureis, harum lateralibus viridi limbatis et terminatis; intermediis ad apices nigro late transfasciatis: primariorum tectricibus et remigum omnium superficie superiore nigris, primariis supra viridi extus limbatis, infra fere omnino viridescentibus: rostro flavicante, ad basin plumbeo: pedibus obscure plumbeis: long, tota 6*3, alee 4*5, caudce 2, tarsi 0*4. Hab. South of Merida (Goering). Mr. Goering has, unfortunately, sent us but one skin of this beautiful new Parrot. It is most nearly allied to U. hueti, but distinguishable at once from that and every other member of the genus by the scarlet outer wing-coverts, which remind one of the Crimson-winged Parrot of Australia (Platycercus erythropterus). The three frontal spots in this species are likewise peculiar. Mr. Goering notes the iris as " bright brownish yellow." 97. ACCIPITER VENTRALIS, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 303; Scl. et Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 25, t. 13. A single adult male example from Merida; agrees with Bogota" skins of A. ventralis in Salvin's collection, and is apparently quite distinct from the species obtained by Mr. Goering in his second collection (cf. P. Z. S. 1868, p. 632). It is not quite so rufous below as the bird figured in ' Exotic Ornithology.' Mr. Goering notes the irides as yellow. 105. GALLINAGO FRENATA (Max.) ; Scl. et Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 196. The only Snipe sent by Goering (obtained near the Lagoon of Urao) agrees with Brazilian skins of G. frenata. 9. Descriptions of twenty-six new Species of Shells collected by Robert M fAndrew, Esq., in the Red Sea. By H E N RY ADAMS, F.L.S. (Plate XLVIII.) MITRA (CANCILLA) ANTONLE, H. Ad. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 1.) M. testa subsolida, elongato-fusiformi, costis obtusis, minoribus et striis longitudinalibus insculpta, albida, fasciis duabus pallide rubris, et super costas punctis fulvo-rubris ornata |