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I cannot close this paper without noticing one more coast 

 plant, Entada Scandens, Benth., for to see the trees covered 

 with this immense climber, with its long beans often 4| feet 

 long hanging from their branches, is a sight that will not easily 

 be forgotten. 



In conclusion, I may hope that although only a very short 

 sketch has been taken of our North Queensland plants in this 

 paper, enough has nevertheless been said to show that a wide 

 and glorious field is open for the botanist and others who delight 

 to contemplate " the works of an Almighty hand." 



Descriptions of three supposed new species of Birds from the 



New Hebrides. 

 By E. P. Ramsay, F.L.S. 

 I purposed this evening to give an account of a small collec- 

 tion of Birds made by Dr. Mackinlay, containing about 20 spe- 

 cies, from some of the seldom visited Islands of the New 

 Hebrides Group, but finding less time on my hands than I anti- 

 cipated, and rather than hurry over the matter, I shall confine 

 myself to describing two or three of those which appear to me 

 to be new. At our next meeting I hope to give a complete list 

 of all the species obtained. 



Macropygia mackinlayi, sp. NOV. 

 The whole of the upper surface dark ashy brown, darker in 

 the wings, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th primary quills with an uncon- 

 spicuous uarrow line of white on the edge of the outer web, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts and scapularies 

 minutely freckled with ashy white, giving a powdery appearance 

 to those parts ; the under surface is of a light ashy brown, 

 blackish in the centre of the chest feathers which are forked ; 

 the throat and the whole of the under surface minutely freckled 

 with a light ashy tint, under wing-coverts and inner webs of 

 quills ashy white ; tail ashy brown, lighter below the outer 

 feathers, above blackish, with the tips ash white and an oval 

 cream-colored patch occupying the central portion of the feathers 



