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fasciatis ; rectricibus cauda cervinis, nigrescenti-fusco irregnla- 

 riter fasciatis et maculatis ; duabus centralibus cinereo-fuscis ; 

 gutture, pectore et abdomine ad partem superiorem nigrescenti- 

 fuscis, singulis plumis cervino maculatis ; abdomine imopallide cer- 

 vino, singulis plumis nigrescenti-fusco transversim fasciatis ; ros- 

 trofusco ; pedibus pallidefuscis. 

 Long. tot. unc. 6| ; rostri, 1 ; alee, 5f ; cauda, 3 ; tarsi, |. 

 Obs. Mr. J. E. Gray believes this bird to be from Demerara, or 

 the Brazils ; the specimen is in the collection at the British Museum, 

 and so far as I am aware is unique. 



Mr. Gould afterwards exhibited a species of Ibis, having many 

 characters in common with the Ibis religiosa of Cuvier, and two new 

 species of the genus Platalea, which were accompanied with the fol- 

 lowing descriptions. 



Ibis strictipennis, — 76. capiie et collo superiore nudis, et nigre- 

 scentifuscis, cceruleo lavatis ; corpore toto, et alts albis, cervino 

 lavatis ; plumis in gulci longisy angustis, lanceolatis et rigidis ; 

 jyrimariis ad apices cocruleo-viridibus ; tertiariis valde productis 

 et nigro-cceruleis, alba spar sis ; larsis et spalio nudo sub aid 

 rufo-fuscis. 

 Long. tot. unc. 30 ; rostri, 6 ; alee, 14-J-; caudce, C ; tarsi, 4. 

 Hub. Australia. 



Platalea regia. Plat, crista occipitali pendente et cor^iore toto, 

 pectore excepto, albo ; pectore flavo parum lavato ; fronte facie 

 anteriori et guld plumis prorsus nudis ; notd super oculos atque 

 in occipite medio aurantiacd. 

 Long. tot. unc. 39 ; rostri, 84 ; alee, 15 ; caucUe, 54-; tarsi, 5-^. 

 Hab. Nova Cambria Australi. 

 Foem. differ t a mare adulto, staturd minor e. 

 Platalea flavipes. Plat, corpore toto albo ; ^jar/e faciei imdd 

 angustiore qudm in Plat, regia ; parte nudd et rostra aurantiacis; 

 pedibus flavis. 

 Long. tot. unc. 28 ; rostri, 7^; alee, 14-J^; caudce, b\', tarsi, i^, 

 Hab. Nova Cambria Australi. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

 helminthology. 

 D. C. M. Dresing, in the Nova Acta Phys. Med. xii., has given 

 twopapers on Helminthology ; one a monograph of the genusTristoma, 

 describing four species, one of them hitherto unknown ; and the 

 other on some new genera and species of this animal, amongst 

 which is a fifth Tristoma. — J. E. Gbay. 



