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flower. The flock consisted of about thirty individuals, the 

 stomach contained nothing but the fluid extracted from the 

 blossoms, and a little pollen from the stamens of the flowers. 



This species differs very little from those of the genus Tricho- 

 glossus and its sub-genus Glossopsitta, except perhaps in the 

 proportionably greater length of the tail, and the relative length 

 of the tibia and tarsus, as will be seen by the accompanying 

 measurements : — 



Average sized specimen of O. Australis : Total length, 5 -8 

 inches; wing 3-S ; tail 2-3; tibia 1-05; tarsus, 0-4. T. (G.) 

 amabilis : Total length 6-7 inches ; wing 5-0 ; tail 3*25 ; tibia 

 115 ; tarsus 046. 



MONDAY, 30th AUGUST, 1S75. 



The Honorable L. F. de Salis in the Chair. 



NEW MEMBER PROPOSED. 



W. H. Drake, Esq. 



MEMBERS ELECTED. 



Thomas Francis, Esq., C.E. ; C. H. Hawkes, Esq. 



MONDAY, 27th SEPTEMBER, 1875. 

 "W. J. Stephens, Esq., M.A. in the Chair. 



MEMBER ELECTED. 



W. H. Drake, Esq. 



Mr. Ramsay read some notes on an Entomostracous Crustacean, 

 (Lepidurus viridis) which had been sent for identification, and also 

 exhibited and gave the following description of a new genus and 

 species of marsupial. 



