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Macropus lunatus. Macr. capite breviy auribus magnis ; artubus 

 anticis parvis ; tarsis mediocriter elongatis et gracilibus ; colore 

 cinereo, collo humerisque ferrugineo pallide tinctis ; corpore sub- 

 tiis e cinereo albo ; lined arcuatd albd in utrinque laiuSy ab hu- 

 meris extensd. 



unc. lin. 

 Longitude ab apice rostri ad caudae basin. ... 18 



caud(S 0? 



tarsi digitorumque (sine unguibus) . . 4 6 



ab apice rostri ad basin auris .... 3 



auris 2 



Hab. West coast of Australia. 



The fifth species resembles the Common Hare in size, and in the 

 texture of the fur ; so much sp, indeed, that a portion of its skin 

 could not be distinguished from that of a Hare. The fore-legs and 

 feet of this animal being very small, Mr. Gould proposed to describe 

 it as 



Macropus Leporides. Macr. pro magnitudine et velleris colore 

 nee non texturd, Lepori timido assimilis ; capite breviusculo ; 

 antibrachVis pedibusque parvuUs ; caudd breviusculd et gracili ; 

 corpore superne nigro, fusco etflavido variegato ; apud latera, et 

 circum oculos colore pallide fulvo prcevalente ; abdomine e cinereo 

 albo ; artubus anticis ad basin nigris, 



unc. lin. 

 Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudae basin. ... 19 6 



Cauda 13 



tarsi digitorumque 4 9 



ab apice rostri ad basin auris .... 4 



auris 2 



Hab. Interior of Australia. 



Mr. Gould also exhibited a remarkable spiny Lizard, allied to the 

 Agamas, which he had procured from Swan River. 



Mr. Gould then called the attention of the Members to an extra- 

 ordinary piece of Bird- architecture, which he had ascertained to be 

 constructed by the Satin Bird, Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus , and an- 

 other of similar structure, but still larger, by the Chlamydera macU' 

 lata. These constructions, Mr. Gould states, are perfectly anomalous 

 in the architecture of birds, and consist in a collection of pieces of 

 stick and grass, formed into a bower ; or one of them (that of the 

 Chlamydera) might be called an avenue, being about three feet in 

 length, and seven or eight inches broad inside ; a transverse section, 

 giving the figure of a horse-shoe, the round part downwards. They 

 are used by the birds as a playing-house, or *'run," as it is termed, 

 and are used by the males to attract the females. The ** run" of 

 the Satin Bird is much smaller, being less than one foot in length, 

 and moreover differs from that just described in being decorated 

 with the highly-coloured feathers of the Parrot tribe ; the Chlamy- 

 dera, on the other hand, collects around its ** run '* a quantity of 

 stones, shells, bleached bones, etc. ; they are also strewed down the 



