260 Mr. Vicors’s and Dr. HonsrrzrDp's Description of the 
characterize it*, with a statement of our doubts. We have also 
to mention that a pair of the Sturnus militaris, Linn., a species 
also belonging to this family, have been presented to the So- 
ciety by a gentleman who received them with other birds from 
New Holland. The species has hitherto been considered ex- 
clusively South American: and as the skins of our birds might 
easily have been imported from America into New Holland, we 
consider it extremely doubtful that they were natives of the 
latter country.- The subject is one of importance, as involving 
not merely the fact of the wide dispersion of a species, but of 
the existence of a group in New Holland as yet unnoticed there ; 
and we therefore consider it prudent merely to state the above 
circumstances without any further comment. 
Fam. Convipz. 
Genus. Cracrious. Vieill. (Barita. Cuv.) 
1. TIBICEN. Cr. niger, nuchd, tectricibus alarum, dorso imo, 
uropygio, crisso, caudeque basi albis. 
Coracias tibicen. Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. xxvii. no. 2. 
Piping Roller. Id. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 86. no. 23. 
“The birds of this species," Mr. Caley informs us, ** are gre- 
garious, and found only in particular places. In the morning 
they make a loud whistling noise high up in the trees.—The 
natives call the species Ca’ruck: and they tell me it builds its 
nest of sticks lined with grass in fron-bark and Apple-trees (a 
species of Angophora). It has three young ones.— These birds 
* Genus. LAMPROTORNIS. Temm. 
Moi Lamp. corpore toto nigro, metallicà subnitente. 
Rostrum pedesque nigri. Longitudo corporis, a ale a carpo ad remigem secun- 
dam, 5; caude, 313; rostri ad frontem, 1 2$» ad rictum, 155; tarsi, 1-7. 
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