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2. ON NEW sPECIES OF MAMMALIA AND BirDs FROM 
Ausrrauia. By J. Gounp, F.R.S., F.Z.S. etc. 
The Proceedings of the Zoological Society having been the means 
by which the many interesting novelties in Natural History obtained 
during the surveying voyages of Captains King, Beechey, Belcher, 
Fitzroy, Blackwood, &ec., by the naturalists attached to their seve- 
ral ships, have been made known to the scientific world, a more appro- 
priate channel cannot, I presume, be selected for communicating the 
interesting results, so far as known, of the expedition now exploring 
the coasts of Northern and Eastern Australia, under the command of 
Capt. Owen Stanley ; and I therefore hasten to lay before the Society 
such novelties as have been received in the two branches of natural 
history to which I have devoted myself, viz. Mammalia and Birds. 
The collection recently sent home by Capt. Stanley and Mr. Mac- 
Gillivray, the able naturalist of H.M.S. ‘ Rattlesnake,’ is a very fine 
one ; it has been procured on what may be considered hitherto un- 
trodden ground, I cannot therefore do better than give a list of the 
whole,—such lists, showing the geographical distribution of species, 
being in the highest degree valuable. 1 have said that the collection 
is a very fine one, and I must not omit observing that much credit is 
due to Capt. Stanley for affording the naturalist the requisite oppor- 
tunities for obtaining so many interesting species ; nor is a lesser meed 
of praise due to Mr. MacGillivray, for the very excellent manner in 
which the specimens are prepared, and the accuracy with which all 
the information connected with them that could be obtained has been 
noted down. The collection of Quadrupeds and Birds only has been 
placed in my hands for examination, with a view to my publishing 
such novelties as it may contain in my works on these subjects ; after 
which the specimens are to be sent to the British Museum. The pe- 
riod that has elapsed since the arrival of the collection has been far 
too short to admit of my investigating the subject as I could wish ; 
‘I shall therefore, on the present occasion, exhibit some of the species 
that appear to me to be new, and defer my remarks upon the entire 
collection to the next or some future meeting of the Society. 
I shall now proceed to describe two species of mammalia and two 
species of birds from this collection, as follows :— 
PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS, Gould. 
Sp.Ch.—Crown of the head black, slightly grizzled with buff ; round 
each eye a large oval patch of deep brownish buff, which advances on 
the sides of the face and shows very conspicuously ; at the nape a broad 
crescent-shaped band of deep sandy buff, which extends down the 
sides of the neck and nearly meets on the breast ; centre of the back 
glossy black, slightly grizzled with grey ; cheeks, chin, all the under 
surface and rump, black, slightly grizzled with buff; ears and wing- 
membranes naked and of a deep purplish black ; claws black. 
Hab. Fitzroy Island. 
This species is about the size of Pteropus poliocephalus, but has a 
