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spot of dark brown near the tips of the tail feathers, indicating 

 the remains of a very indistinct cross-band; upper tail-coverts, 

 brown ; lores and a stripe on either side of the throat from the 

 base of the lower mandible to below the ear-coverts, white ; 

 under wing-coverts, white, washed with yellow ; throat and 

 the whole of the under surface, citron yellow ; deeper in tint 

 on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; iris, hazel ; bill, black ; 

 feet and legs, blackish brown. 



Total length from tip of tail to tip of bill, 4'1 inches; wing, 

 2'2 inches ; tarsus, 0'7 inch ; tail, 1'75 inches ; bill from forehead, 

 04 inch ; from the angle of the mouth, 0*5 inch. The bill is 

 strong and large in comparison with the size of the bird, and the 

 bristles at the base of the bill but slightly developed. 



This species, which may be distinguished from G. albogularis 

 its nearest ally, by the white lores, and absence of white line 

 over the eye, and indistinct band on the tail, inhabits the dense 

 scrubs of the Herbert River district (where I shot it in 1874). 

 It has a pleasing twittering song of short duration. 



EXHIBITS. 



Mr. E. Ramsay, F.L.S., exhibited some new or rare fish from 

 Port Jackson — one a species he had not yet determined, belong- 

 ing to the family Clupeidce, about a foot in length, and remark- 

 able for the great number of its branchiostegals, apparently a 

 species of Elops new to Port Jackson ; the other a very rare species 

 of Prionurns of the family Acronuridce, agreeing with Gunther's 

 description of Prionurus microlepedotus, except in the form of 

 the snout, the upper profile of which is convex and rounded just 

 above the mouth ; the laminae of the tail, 11 in number on either 

 side, G on the tail and caudal portion of the body in a straight 

 line, with a small one over the fourth, and two on either side of 

 the 6th, on the tail ; the formulae of the fins are D. -^-, P. 17, 

 V. $-, A. yt' colour uniform dark brown. 



