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above each eye, turns downwards behind it and runs on a level with 

 its lower edge straight along the sides as far as the breathing-holes, 

 thence downwards along the tail to the caudal fin. 



Under the lower jaw is a horse-shoe-shaped space enclosed by si- 

 milar smooth pits, the two ends of which, connected by a transverse 

 chain of pits, turn off backwards towards the corners of the mouth, 

 and continuing low down on the sides of the belly, end underneath 

 the axil of the pectoral fins. 



A third wavy line runs along the inner or hinder edges of the 

 maxillaries, and turning obliquely backwards some distance under- 

 neath the eye, descends till it meets and is terminated by a fourth 

 obliquely vertical row which crosses the nape like a head-stall, and is 

 terminated low down on the sides of the throat by the second lon- 

 gitudinal line. On the nape the edges of these pits are raised or 

 echinulate, and more disconnected than elsewhere. 



Colour of the whole fish above bright orange, beautifully rosy at 

 the flanks and sides, and with the fins and lips vermilion ; on the 

 belly it is nearly white or pale, suffused with flesh-colour or rosy, 

 and with the ventral or anal fins deeper vermilion. 



The tentacle dull, its stalk orange. 



MEASUREMENTS. inches. 



Whole length 16 



From tip of upper jaw to origin of dorsal fin 6 



Length of base of dorsal fin 4 



Length from end of base of ditto to root of caudal fin. ... 2 



Length of caudal fin , 3 \ 



Length of head 5 



Breadth, greatest at fore axil of pectoral fins, from . . 8 to 10 

 Depth, greatest half-way, the tip of upper jaw and origin 



of dorsal fin 4 



Depth at root of caudal fin 1 



Length from tip of lower jaw to root of ventral fins .... 4 



Length of ventral fins 2\ 



Length from each breathing-hole to root of caudal fin. ... 5 



Diameter of eyes Of 



Mr. Gould then exhibited to the meeting two new Australian 

 birds, which he characterized as follows : — 



Meliphaga longirostris. Vertice et genis nigris ; plumis minutis 

 ad basin mandibulce superioris, mystacibus ad basin inferioris man- 

 dibulce, strigd superciliari, plumarum cristuld post aures, plumis- 

 que injugulo setosis, albis. 

 Top of the head and cheeks black, with minute white feathers 

 on the forehead round the base of the upper mandible ; a super- 

 ciliary stripe, a moustache at the base of the lower mandible, and 

 a small tuft of feathers immediately behind the ear- coverts white ; 

 feathers on the throat white and bristle-like ; upper surface brownish 

 black, becoming browner on the rump ; wings brownish black, the 

 outer edges of the quills margined at the base with beautiful wax- 

 yellow, and faintly margined with white towards the extremities ; 



