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Houbara Bustard {Otis hoiibara, Gmel.) . . . . < ^'y^' \\()nr\ 



Three-keeled Emys (^my5 /rf/'M^a, Schw.) .. s oV)* iiqnq 



Caspian Emys {Emys Caspica, Schweig.) .. .. < 07^' I'onnn 



Testudo mauritanica, Dum. & Bib < o't-j* , oono 



Testudo tabulata, Walbaum i S n* i "onnn 



Gymnopodus jEgyptiacus, Geoff.; labiatus, Bell < eV)' -i' i)c\rif\ 



Morelia Argus, Dura. & Bib < ^'j-.* i "i /-o- 



Proteus {Proteus anguinus, Laur.) 1 S n 1707 



Common Trout {Sahnofario, Linn.) 1 S D 1 "pQno 



Grayling {Thymallus vulgaris, Nilss.) 1 S d' 1 9000 



On seven xew species of Australian Birds. 

 By John Gould, F.R.S. etc. 



Graucalus hypoleucus. 



Lores black; crown of the head and all the upper surface dark 

 grey; wings and tail black; chin, under surface of the wings, abdo- 

 men and under tail-coverts white ; breast pale greyish white ; irides 

 brownish black ; bill blackish brown ; legs and feet black ; insides of 

 the feet and spaces between the scales of the tarsi mealy grey. 



Total length 9 inches; bill 1^ ; wing 5| ; tail 4 j ; tarsi 1. 



Hab. Port Essington. 



Remark. — Distinguished from all the other Australian members of 

 the genus by the whiteness of the under surface, 



LiMOSA uropygialis. 



All the upper surface brownish grey, becoming dark brown in 

 the centre and nearly white on the edges of the feathers ; primaries 

 brown, with white shafts ; rump and upper tail- coverts conspicuously 

 barred with brown and white ; tail alternately barred with brown 

 and white ; throat and abdomen white ; neck and breast brownish 

 grey ; under wing-coverts and flanks barred with brown and white ; 

 bill white at the base, becoming brown at the tip ; irides dark brown ; 

 legs brownish black. 



Total length 15 inches; bill 3^ ; wing 8j; tail 3^; tarsi 2^. 



Hab. Australia. 



Remark. — Distinguished from Limosa rufa by the rump being 

 barred instead of white as in that species. The female is about a 

 third larger in all her admeasurements than the male. 



Charadrius veredus. 



Crown of the head and all the upper surface brown, each feather 



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