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band of white; the extremities of both mandibles are also 

 white ; irides scarlet ; eyelash and lores pinky scarlet ; feet 

 black. 



Genus CEREOPSIS, Latham. 



But one species of this singular and strictly Australian 

 form has yet been discovered, and I do not think it likely 

 that another will be found. 



Sp. 578. CEREOPSIS NOV^-HOLLANDI^E, Lath. 



Cereopsis Goose. 



Cereopsis novce-hollandice, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p, Ixvi. 



New Holland Cereopsis, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 325, pi. 138*. 



Cereopsis cinereus, Vieill. Gal. des Ois., torn. ii. pi. 284. 



Anser griseus, Vieill. 2nde edit, du Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., torn, xxiii. 



p. 338. 

 Cei-eopsis australis, Swains. An. in Meuag., p. 219, fig. 32. 

 Cape Barren Goose of the Colonists. 



Cereopsis novae-hoUandiae, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. vii. 

 pl.l. 



This is one of the Australian birds which particularly 

 attracted the notice of the earlier voyagers to that country, 

 by nearly every one of whom it is mentioned as being very 

 plentiful on all the islands in Bass's Straits, and so tame that 

 it might be easily knocked down with sticks or even captured 

 by hand ; during my sojourn in the country I visited many of 

 the localities above-mentioned, and found that, so far from its 

 being still numerous, it is almost extirpated ; I killed a pair 

 on Isabella Island, one of a small group near Flinders' Island, 

 on the 12th of January 1839. I beheve that it may be still 

 found on some parts of the south coast of Australia ; but in the 

 colonized districts, where it has been much molested, it has 

 now become so scarce that it is very rarely seen. It passes 

 the greater portion of its time on the ground, and seldom takes 



