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Macropus lunatus. Macr. capite brevi, auribus viagnis ; artubus 

 anticis parvis ; tarsis mcdiocriter elongatis et gracil'ibus ; colore 

 cinereo, collo humerisque ferrug'ineo j>allide tinctis ; cor pore sub- 

 tils e cinereo albo ; lined arcuatd alba in utrinque latus, ab hu- 

 meris extensd. 



line. lin. 

 Longitude ab apice rostri ad caudae basin. ... 18 



caudce 0? 



tarsi digitorumque{sme\in^u\b\xs,). . 4 6 



ab apice rostri ad basin auris .... 3 



auris 2 



Hub. West coast of Australia. 



The fifth species resembles the Common Hare in size, and in the 

 texture of the fur ; so much so, indeed, that a portion of its skin 

 could not be distinguished from that of a Hare. The fore-legs and 

 feet of this animal being very small, Mr. Gould proposed to describe 

 it as 



Macropus Leporides. Macr. pro magnitudine et velleris colore 

 nee non texturd, Lepori timido assimilis ; capite breviusculo ; 

 antibrachiis pedibusque parvulis ; caudd breviusculd et gracili ; 

 corpore superne nigro, fusco etjlavido variegato ; apud latera, et 

 circum oculos colore pallidefulvoprcevalente ; abdoinme e cinereo 

 albo ; artubus anticis ad basin nigris. 



unc. lin. 

 Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudae basin. ... 19 6 



caudce 13 



tarsi digitorumque 4 9 



ab apice rostri ad basin auris .... 4 



auris 2 



Hab. Interior of Australia. 



Mr. Gould also exhibited a remarkable spiny Lizard, allied to the 

 Agamas, which he had procured from Swan River. 



Mr. Gould then called the attention of the Members to an extra- 

 ordinarj' piece of Bird-architecture, which he had ascertained to be 

 constructed by the Satin Bird, Ptilonorhynchus holosericeus , and an- 

 other of similar structure, but still larger, by the Chlamydera macu- 

 lata. Tliese constructions, Mr. Gould states, are perfectly anomalous 

 in the architecture of birds, and consist in a collection of pieces of 

 stick and grass, formed into a bower ; or one of them (that of the 

 Chlamydera) might be called an avenue, being about three feet in 

 length, and seven or eight inches broad inside ; a transverse section, 

 giving the figure of a horse-shoe, the round part downwards. They 

 are used by the birds as a playing-house, or "run," as it is termed, 

 and are used by the males to attract the females. The "run" of 

 the Satin Bird is much smaller, being less than one foot in length, 

 and moreover differs from that just described in being decorated 

 with the highly-coloured feathers of the Parrot tribe ; the Chlamy- 

 dera, on the other hand, collects around its " run " a quantity of 

 stones, shells, bleached bones, etc. ; they are also strewed down the 



