OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 379 



In Perameles Cockerelli there is a well-defined narrow line along 

 the upper lip from opposite the canine tooth, bordering the blackish 

 brown of the upper part of the face and head, which extends a little 

 below the eye, and from thence in an upward curved line to the 

 ears ; the sides of the face below are ashy grey, pencilled below 

 the ears with blackish and a few little rusty red ; there is also a 

 small patch of rusty red at the base of the ear below ; the hind 

 feet ai-e blackish bi'own ; and the snout rather bare in front from 

 opposite the canine tooth. 



Notes of a Collection of Birds from the Norman River, Gulf of 

 Carpentaria, with descriptions of some new species. By Le 

 Comte de Castelnau, Consul General de France, Melbourne ; 

 and E. Pierson Ramsay, F.L.S., Curator of the Australian 

 Museum, Sydney. 



Le Comte de Castelnau having lately secured for his museum 

 a collection of Birds from the Gulf of Carpentaria, we thought, 

 perhaps, some remarks "upon the avi-fauna of this far-off and little 

 known region would prove acceptable to the Society. The fol- 

 lowing, then, is a list of the species obtained, with descriptions of 

 such as we deem to be new or undescribed : — 



The Nomenclature, except where otherwise stated, is that used in Mr. 

 Gould's Handbook to his Birds of Australia. 



1. Haliaetus leucogaster, Vigors. 



2. Hieracidea orient alis, Schleg., Sharpe, Brit. Mus. Cat.. 

 Ace, voll.,p. 422, 1874. 



3. Paxdion leucocephalus, Gould. 



4. HlERACOGLAUX OONNIVENS. 



5. Strix delicatulus, Gould. 

 G. Hylochelidox xigricaxs. 



7. Merops ornatus. 



8. Dacelo Leach it, Viy. tfc Horsf. 



