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Show 1876.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON A NEW PARROT. 255 The most noticeable additions during the month were :- 1. A Levaillant's Cynictis (Cynictis penicillata), presented by Viscount Mandeville, January 5th. Of this rare and elegantly shaped Carnivore (figured in the Society'e 'Transactions,' vol. i. pl. iii.) but few specimens have been lately received. One previously obtained was accidentally omitted from the Revised List of Vertebrates, where the species is not mentioned. 2. A White-spotted Crake (Porzana notata), captured at sea off Cape Santa Maria, Uruguay, by an officer of the R.M.S.S. 'Elbe,' and received January 19th. The specimen agrees accurately with the figure in the •* Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle' (Birds, pl. 48). The species is rare, and quite new to the collection. 3. A Panda (JElurus fulgens), sent home from Calcutta, and purchased 16th February, 1876. There has been but one living specimen of this rare animal previously in the collection. Mr. Sclater exhibited the Parrot designated in Tschudi's ' Fauna Peruana' (Aves, p. 271) Conurus illigeri, which had been kindly sent to him for examination by M. Louis Coulon, Honorary Director of the Museum of Neuchatel, and observed that it had been wrongly determined by the author of the ' Fauna Peruana.' The specimen, which, in spite of what Tschudi said, was certainly not far from mature, presented no traces of the red markings on the front, back, and belly, which are characteristic of Ara maracana (i. e. Conurus illigeri of Tschudi), and had besides a larger and deeper bill and longer tail. It appeared to belong to a species hitherto unrecognized, which might be described as follows:- Head of Ara couloni (nat. size). A R A COULONI, sp. nov. Conurus illigeri, Tsch. Fauna Per. Aves, p. 271. Sittace maracana, part, Finsch, Papag. i. p. 420. Diagn. Viridis, capite undique remigibus et rectricibus extus |