9 | 5 | faster. | 15 | 4 | | 20 | 3 | | 24 | 2 | | 28 | 1 | | 31 | 0 | | |------------| | Sept. 3 | 1 | | 6 | 2 | | 9 | 3 | | 12 | 4 | | 15 | 5 | | 18 | 6 | | 21 | 7 | | 24 | 8 | | 27 | 9 | | 30 | 10 | | Oct. 3 | 11 | | 6 | 12 | | 10 | 13 | | 14 | 14 | | 19 | 15 | | 27 | 16 | Clock | Nov. 15 | 15 | slower. | 20 | 14 | | 24 | 13 | | 27 | 12 | | 30 | 11 | | Dec. 2 | 10 | | 5 | 9 | | 7 | 8 | | 9 | 7 | | 11 | 6 | | 13 | 5 | | 16 | 4 | | 18 | 3 | | 20 | 2 | | 22 | 1 | | 24 | 0 | | |------------| | 26 | 1 | | 28 | 2 | Clock | 30 | 3 | faster. |__________|____________| * * * * * THE OCELLATED PHEASANT. The collections of the Museum of Natural History of Paris have just been enriched with a magnificent, perfectly adult specimen of a species of bird that all the scientific establishments had put down among their desiderata, and which, for twenty years past, has excited the curiosity of naturalists. This species, in fact, was known only by a few caudal feathers, of which even the origin was unknown, and which figured in the galleries of the Jardin des Plantes under the name of _Argus ocellatus_. This name was given by J. Verreaux, who was then assistant naturalist at the museum. It was inscribed by Prince Ch. L. Bonaparte, in his Tableaux Paralléliques de l'Ordre des Gallinaces, as _Argus giganteus_, and a few years later it was reproduced by Slater in his Catalogue of the Phasianidæ, and by Gray is his List of the Gallinaceæ. But it was not till 1871 and 1872 that Elliot, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, and in a splendid monograph of the Phasianidæ, pointed out the peculiarities that were presented by the feathers preserved at the Museum of Paris, and published a figure of them of the natural size.