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ries, base and tips of the secondaries, and tips of tlie tail, white ; 

 breast grey; abdomen deep ffvwn colour, becoming almost white in 

 the centre ; bill black; feet blackish brown ; irides dark brown. 



Total length, G^ inches ; bill, f ; wing, 3^ ; tail, 3^ ; tarsi, |. 



Hab. Victoria River, North-western Australia. 



The three birds above described are in the British Museum. 



The next species to which Mr. Gould directed attention was a new 

 Hawk belonging to the genus Sjriloniis, and which dilTers remarkably 

 from the S. umhdatus or Bacha of the continent of India, and the 

 S. holosjjilus of Manilla. 



For this bird he proposed the appellation of 



Spilornis rufipectus. 



Crown of the head and the lengthened feathers of the occiput 

 deep black, the occipital plumes margined at the tip with rufous ; 

 feathers at the nape black, margined with rufous, showing conspicu- 

 ously ; all the upper surface and wings dark chocolate-brown, with 

 paler edges ; chin and sides of the neck greyish black ; chest deep 

 cinnamon-brown ; primaries and secondaries blotched with white at 

 intervals on their internal web ; under wing-coverts, abdomen, vent, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts cinnamon-brown, crossed by bands 

 composed of two large spots of white bounded above and below with 

 a narrow line of black ; tail dark brown, crossed near the base by a 

 narrow and not very distinct band of greyish, and near the apex by 

 broad bands of a lighter hue passing hito whitish on the edges of 

 the internal webs and narrowly edged at the tip with })ale reddish- 

 brown and white ; bill blackish-brown ; the cere, naked orbits, and 

 feet appear to have been yellow. 



Total length, 19^ inches : bill. If ; wing, 13^ ; tail, 9 ;_ tarsi, 2|. 



Hab. Celebes, vicinity of Macassar. From the collection of Mr. 

 Wallace. 



The next was a highly interesting species of Bullfinch, which he 

 designated 



Pyrrhtjla aurantiaca. 



Male. Bill, face, wings, and tail deep jnirplish-black ; rump, 

 upper and under tail-coverts white ; the remainder of the upper and 

 under surfaces rich reddish- orange, deepest above ; the lesser wing- 

 coverts are also reddish-orange, as is the apical half of the inner- 

 most of the greater wing-coverts, while the outer ones are slightly 

 tipped with bufiy-white ; irides black ; feet pinky-flesh colour. 



Total length, b\ inches ; wing, 3^ ; tail, 2|- ; tarsi, f . 



Female. Has the black circle round the bill ; head and neck ash- 

 coloured ; back ash colour, tinged with orange-red ; lower parts like 

 those of the male, but much less brilliant and approaching to olive. 



For his knowledge of this pretty species Mr. Gould was indebted 

 to the researches of Dr. A. Leith Adams of the 22nd Regiment, 

 who killed it on the Western Himalayas, and who states that he 



