Australian Birds in the Collection of the Linnean Society. 397 
Gracula viridis. Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. xxviii. no. 2. 
Mimetes viridis. King, Survey of the Intertropical Coasts of 
Australia, vol. ii. p. 419. 
Green Grakle. Lath. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 168. no. 24. 
2. FraAvo-ciNcTA. Mim. flavo-viridis, subtus pallidior, capite 
dorsoque fusco-lineatis, alis caudáque nigris viridi flavoque 
variegatis. 
Mimetes flavo-cinctus. King, Survey, dc. vol. ii. p. 419. 
The Society is indebted for this bird to Captain Philip Parker 
King, R.N., F.R. & L.S., who first discovered the species, and 
described it from this specimen. As far as can be judged from 
the mere exuviæ of birds, where few specimens can be compared 
together, this bird appears a very distinct species from Mim. vi- 
ridis. 
3 "Minis LOIDES.. Mim, supra brunnescenti-olivacea, fusco-stri- 
—ata, subtus alba fusco striatim guttata ; tectricibus supernis 
P restéibuigué secundariis pallido-rufo marginatis ; rectricibus 
apice albis. 
Capitis nucheque plume striis fuscis gracilibus, dorsi latioribus 
in medio notatæ. Tectrices inferiores rufæ, fusco-variegate. 
Rectrices fuscæ apicibus albis. Longitudo corporis, 103 ; 
ale a carpo ad remigem quartam, 54, ; caude, 5; rostri ad 
rictum, 14, ad frontem, 1; tarsi, +2. 
We have already alluded to the difficulty of determining the 
limits of species by the skins only of birds, without the oppor- 
tunity of examining the changes in their plumage from age or 
season in their native countries. it is of course with hesitation 
that we give the three foregoing species as distinct. A general 
similarity in the disposition of their colours prevails throughout 
the 
