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Under the lower jaw is a horse-shoe-shaped space enclosed by si- 

 milar smooth pits, the two ends of which, connected by a tiansverse 

 chain of pits, turn off backvvards towards the coraers of the mouth, 

 and continuing low down on the sides of the belly, end underneath 

 the axil of the pectoral fins. 



A third ■vvavy line runs along the inner or hinder edges of the 

 inaxillaries, and turning obliąuely backwards some distance under- 

 neath the eye, descends till it meets and is terminated by a fourth 

 obliąuely vertical row which crosses the nape likę a head-stall, and is 

 terminated low down on the sides of the throat by the second lon- 

 gitudinal line. On the nape the edges of these pits are raised or 

 echinulate, and more disconnected than elsewhere. 



Colour of the -vvhole fish above bright orange, beautifully rosy at 

 the flanks and sides, and with the fins and lips vermilion ; on the 

 belly it is nearly white or pale, sufFused with flesh-colour or rosy, 

 and with the ventral or anai fins deeper vermilion. 



The tentacle duU, its stalk orange. 



MEASUREMENTS. incheS. 



Whole length 16 



From tip of upper jaw to origin of dorsal fin 6 



Length of base of dorsal fin 4 



Length from end of base of ditto to root of caudal fin. ... 2 



Length of caudal fin 3į 



Length of head 5 



Breadth, greatest atfore axil of pectoral fins, from . . 8 to 10 

 Depth, greatest half-way, the tip of upper jaw and origin 



of dorsal fin 4 



Depth at root of caudal fin 1 



Length from tip of lower jaw to root of ventral fins .... 4 



Length of ventral fins 2į 



Length from each breathing-hole to root of caudal fin. ... 5 



Diameter of eyes Oį 



Mr. Gould then eshibited to the meeting two new Australian 

 birds, which he characterized as follows : — 



Meliphaga longirostris. Vertice et genis nigris ; plumis minutis 



ad basin mandibulee superioris, mystacibus ad basin inferioris man- 



dibula, strigd superciliari, plumarum cristuld post aures, plumis- 



que injugulo setosis, albis. 



Top of the head and cheeks black, with minute white feathers 



on the forehead round the base of the upper mandible ; a super- 



ciliary stripe, a moustache at the base of the lower mandible, and 



a small tuft of feathers immediately behind the ear-coverts \vhite; 



feathers on the throat white and bristle-like ; upper surface brownish 



black, becoming browner on the rump ; wings browaish black, the 



outer edges of the ąuills margined at the base vcith beautiful wax- 



yellow, and faintly margined with white towards the extremities ; 



tail brownish black, margined externally at the base with wax-yel- 



