busque griseis ; primariis ferrugineo-nigris ; seciindariis albis ; 

 corpore inferiore pallide cervino ; tectricibus caudce albidis. 



Female. — Head, neck and crest dark nist-red ; chin white ; all tlie 

 upper surface, wings, tail and fianks grey ; primaries brownish 

 black ; secondaries pure white ; under surface cream-colour, fading 

 into white on the under tail-coverts. 



Totai length 23 inches ; bill, 2\ ; wing, 9| ; taU, 5 ; tarsi, 2. 



Hab. Amoj'. 



Remark. — Nearly allied to the Goosander of Europe, but smaller 

 in size and mere delicate in colour than that bird. I believe a malė 

 of this bird is in the British Museum ; the female is in my own col- 

 lection, and is the only one I have seen. The specimen in the Mu- 

 seum assimilates as closely to the malė of the European bird as the 

 one here deseribed does to the female. 



Pica serica. P. capite, colio, pectore et tectricibus cauda saturati 

 nigris ; tectricibus alarum cinereo-cčeruleis, ventre et scapulariis 

 albis ; caudd metallice nigro-viridi ; rastro et pedibus nigris. 



Head, throat, chest, upper part of the back, upper and under tail- 

 coverts deep black ; secondaries and greater \ving-coverts shining 

 steel-blue ; spurious wing and edges of the base of the outer webs of 

 the primaries shining deep green ; inner webs of the primaries white 

 the tips of the primaries ^nd the margins of the inner ■vvebs for a 

 short distance from the tip black ; scapularies and belly pure \vhite 

 tail greenish black, with bronze reflexions ; bill and feet black. 



Totai length about 19 inches; bill, 2; wing. S; tail about 12 

 tarsi, 21. 



Hab. Amoy. 



Closely allied to the common Magpie, but differs in the wings being 

 blue instead of green, in the rather less extent of the wlnte, and in 

 having a longer bill and much longer tarsi. 



Mr. Gould also exhibited to the Meeting a small species of Mam- 

 mal, which he characterized as 



Dromicia concinna. Drom. maculd nigrd ante oculos ; corpore 

 superne et parte eiteriore crurttm pallide bru/i?ieis ; crurum parte 

 interiore et corpore subtus distincte albis. 



Before the eye a mark of black ; all the upper surface, the outer 

 side of the limbs and the tail, pale sandy brown ; all the under sur- 

 face and the inner side of the limbs white ; the two colours distinctly 

 separated, or not blending into each other. 



Length of the head and body, 3| inches ; of the tail, 3^ ; of the 

 ear, \. 



Hab. Western Australia. 



^'^ery nearly allied to the Dromicia of ^'an Diemen's Land, but 

 distinguished from that animal by its much smaller size, by the di- 

 stinct separation of the colours of the upper and under surface, and 

 by the absence of any enlargement at the base of the tail. 



Also a new Grallatorial bird, which he named 



FuLicA AusTRALis. Ful. capitc collogtie nigris; superne griseo- 



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