. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . sedentary type of thegenus Area should have been so long uncharacterized inour Conchologieal Systems ; seeing that the other fourtypes, viz. Area, Pectunculus, Cwculloea, and Nucula,were defined many years ago by the celebrated have consequently supplied this omission ; and at thesame time have selected a species hitherto, we believe,confounded with t
. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . sedentary type of thegenus Area should have been so long uncharacterized inour Conchologieal Systems ; seeing that the other fourtypes, viz. Area, Pectunculus, Cwculloea, and Nucula,were defined many years ago by the celebrated have consequently supplied this omission ; and at thesame time have selected a species hitherto, we believe,confounded with the B. Noie; from which it differs insculpture, colour, and in the umbones being less remotefrom each other. The Animals of these shells affix themselves to otherbodies by a particular muscle, which is protruded throughthe gaping part of the valves ; they also adhere, whenyoung, by the byssiform epidermes which covers theexterior : a specimen now before us, which we procuredin the Bay of Naples, perfectly exemplifies this singularproperty. The present species is not uncommon in theWest Indies, and has been sent to us from all others of this particular type it is almost constantlycovered by coralline substances. 118. 119 APALIS ttwracioev.(rot-get Warbler. APALIS thoracia, Gorget Warbler. Family Sylviadee. Sub-fam: Sylvianse. Genus (?) Apalis. Generic (?) Character. General structue of Prinea, but the bill shorter, the plumage morecompact, and the outer toe not connected to the middle as faras the first joint. Srccinc Character. Olive green, beneath yellowish white ; breast with a black collar ;three lateral tail-feathers partly white ; front black. Le Plastron Noir. Le Vaill. 3pi. 123. f. I. male. 2. thoracia. JVat. Miss. 22. pi. 969. This is one of the pretty warblers of Southern Africa,discovered by Le Vaillant: it is very common and widelydistributed in the interior, but rare near the Cape. LeVaillant mentions having found a young1 bird of t
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