of buff color, in wanting the white spot. 1 the chest, and some other 
characters; two distinct black marks, margined above with white, are — 
observable on the sides of the body. The name Jateralis was given 
to this animal, and to the last species Mr. Gould gave the name psilo- — 
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pus, on account of the smallness of its fore feet and legs; this animal as 
resembles the common hare in size, and also in the coloring and tex- 
ture of the fur; so much so, indeed, that a portion of its skin could 
not be distinguished fro that of a hare: its fore legs are black. 
Macropus frenatus was discovered in the interior of New South 
Wales; M. unguifer on the northwest coast; M. lateralis and M. 
lunatus on the west coast; and M. psilopus in the interior of Austra- 
lia. Mr. Gould also exhibited a remarkable spring lizard, allied to 
the Agamus, which he had procured from Swan River. He then called 
the attention of the members to an extraordinary piece of bird-archi- ” 
tecture, which he had ascertained to be constructed by the satin bird, 
of similar structure, but 
being less than one foot in length, and moreover differs from that just 
described, in being decorated with the highly colored featht rs of the 
Parr tribe: the Chlamydera, on the other hand, collects arou its 
“run” a quantity of stones, shells, bleached bones, &c. 5 they are also 
strewed down the center within. Mr. Gould spent much time in ob- 
serving the habits of those birds, and was fully satisfied that the runs 
were actually formed by them, and constructed for the purpose val 
scribed.— Ibid, 
24. P: roceedings of the Tenth Meeting of the British Association— 
This meeting was held at Glasgow, in Sept. 1840. Our abstract of its 
proceedings is unavoidably postponed to the next number. 
25. Necrology.—At the last anniversary meeting of the Linnwat 
Society of London, held May 25th, 1840, (the anniversary of the 
birth of Linnzus,) the President, according to the usual custom, 
opened the business of the meeting by stating the number of mem- 
bers which the Society had Jost by death during the past year, 
