30 THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY 



MONDAY, 28th JUNE, 1875. 



J. C. Cox, Esq., M.D., in the Chair. 



MEMBERS ELECTED. 



The Honorable Leopold Fane cle Salis ; E. 0. Moriarty, Esq. ; 

 Captain Eldrecl ; The Eev. J. V. Atkin, M.A. ; R. Prendergast, 

 Esq. ; and Dr. Tarrant, Kiama. 



MONDAY, 26th JULY, 1875, 



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



NEW MEMBERS PROPOSED. 



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



Mr. E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S,, read the following paper descriptive 

 of a new species of TricTioglossus. 



Trichoglossus. ( GlossopsittaJ amabilis. 



Adult Male. — Forehead (all above a stoaight line from the eye 

 to the nostril) and the whole of the upper surface bright green, 

 darker on the wings and tail, brightest on the rump and upper 

 tail coverts, but having a slight olive-green tinge on the upper 

 wing coverts, interscapular region and back ; the first primary 

 quill, the tips and all but a narrow green margin to the outer webs 

 of the remaining quills, blackish brown ; the inner webs of the 

 secondaries and concealed portions of the wing coverts blackish 

 brown ; primaries and secondaries below, and the outer series of 

 the under wing-coverts, dark brown, the first two secondaries 

 having a faint spot of yellow near the base of their inner webs, 

 being visible only on the under surface ; the remainder of the 

 under wing-coverts and margins of the shoulders bright green, of 



