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Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they are listed at the end of the text.
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ORIGINAL FIGURES AND DESCRIPTIONS
NEW, RARE, OR INTERESTING
ANIMALS,
SELECTED CHIEFLY FROM THE CLASSES OF
Ornithology, Entomology, and Conchology,
AND ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THEIR APPARENT AFFINITIES.
WM. SWAINSON, ESQ., F.R.S., F.L.S.
ASSISTANT COMMISSARY GENERAL TO H. M. FORCES. CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PARIS; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE HISTORIC SOCIETY OF NEW YORK; MEMBER OF THE WERNERIAN SOCIETY, &c. &c. &c.
SECOND SERIES.
London:
PRINTED BY W. J. SPARROW, BERNERS MEWS, BERNERS STREET.
PUBLISHED BY BALDWIN & CRADOCK, PATERNOSTER ROW,
AND R. HAVELL, 77, OXFORD STREET.
TO HIS MOST CHRISTIAN MAJESTY,
Louis Philippe,
KING OF THE FRENCH,
Whom as a PRIVATE GENTLEMAN, exiled by despotism from his native country, enjoyed that respect which the dignity of virtue can alone ensure; whom, as a PRINCE, descended from a race of Kings, gained the affections of a whole people;--as the KING of a great and intellectual nation, enjoys the love and veneration of the wise and the good; and as a true PATRON OF SCIENCE, munificently encourages, both privately and publicly, all who are engaged in its pursuit,
THIS VOLUME
Is dedicated,
WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE HIGHEST ADMIRATION
AND OF THE GREATEST RESPECT,
PREFACE
FLUVICOLA cursoria.
Family Todidae. Sub-Family Fluvicolinae.
GENERIC CHARACTER.--Zool. Journ. No. 10, p. 172.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
There is to be found, in Tropical America, a singular race of flycatching birds, whose plumage is black and white. Their haunts are only in the vicinity of water: they pursue their prey upon the ground, running with great celerity, and are constantly in motion. They have, in short, all the manners and habits of the Stone Chats, and when we published the definition of this genus, we were led to believe it belonged to the Saxicolinae. The present species we met with in abundance at Pernambuco, frequenting the sides of the rivers and lagoons.
MACROPTERYX longipennis.
Family Hirundinidae.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Hirundo Klecho, Horsfield, Linn. Trans, xiii. p. 143, female?
Cypselus longipennis. Pl. Col. Pl. 83, f. 1?
The peculiar structure of these birds oblige us to consider them as forming a natural group, intermediate between the typical Swifts, and the Swallows. To the first they are allied by their strong scansorial feet; to the latter by the length and fixed position of the hind toe, and the depression of the bill.
EUDAMUS Agesilaus.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennae with the club unequally fusiform, the outer half abruptly bent, forming a lengthened, attenuated hook, alike in both sexes; anterior wings papilioniform: posterior wings with the caudal appendages very long and obtuse.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
EUDAMUS Doryssus.
The sexes of this species materially differ. Our figure represents the female: in the male, the wings are browner, and highly glossed at their base with green; the snowy border on the posterior wings is very narrow above, but much broader beneath. It appears very locally distributed; we found it common in the vicinity of Bahia.
MITRA Episcopalis.
Family Volutidae.--Sub-Family Mitrianae.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Types of Form.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
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