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brown on the under surface ; shoulders and upper wing-coverts 

 blackish ; hind neck, interscapular region, scapulars and back 

 very light ashy-white. A white patch at the base of the bill on 

 either side extends to above the eye, but not beyond it ; on the 

 lores, just in front of the eye, a small spot of blackish-brown ; 

 the chin, ear-coverts, throat, sides of the neck and the whole of 

 the under surface, also under and upper tail-coverts, pure white ; 

 under wing-coverts dark brown ; bill, legs, and feet, black. 



Total length, 5 in.; wing, 39; tail, 2"5 ; tarsus, 0'66 ; bill, 

 from forehead, 0*6 in. ; from gape, 0*7 ; from nostril, 035 ; width 

 at gape, 5. 



This well marked species was discovered by Mr. Goldie in the 

 scrubs of the Goldie River, at a considerable distance inland. 



EXHIBITS 



The Hon. W. Macleay, M.L.C., exhibited the fish AmpMsile 

 Komis described by him, and the shell Vivipara Alisonij described 

 by Mr. Brazier. 



N. N. de MikluhO'Maclay exhibited drawings of Melanesian 

 natives, showing the strange effects produced by Macrodontism. 



Mr. T. A. Tenison- Woods displayed a singular instance of a 

 photograph being converted into a negative, and all the lights 

 reversed by an instantaneous application of electrical conditions, 

 the explanation of which is not yet known. 



Mr. Brazier exhibited a splendid series of Cylindrella from the 

 West Indies and South America, also of ^trojphia, sent to him by 

 Mr. J. H. Thomson, of Massachussetts, viz., G. interrupta, 

 cJiordata, trilaTnellata, producta, vignalensis, Turcasiana, perlata, 

 EllioUi, Broohsiana, Holla7idi, scahiosa, Blainiana, Hanleyanay 

 discorSy Teneriensis, seminuda, gracilis, decollatum, and Strojphia 

 Martensi, glausuva, Ci/clostoma rudiSf and sub-fossil. 



