260 Mr. ViGORs's and Dr. Horsiield's Description of the 



characterize it*, with a statement of our doubts. We have also 

 to mention that a pair of the Sliirnus mil/taris, Linn., a species 

 also belonging to this family, have been presented to the So- 

 ciety by a gentleman who received them with other birds from 

 New Holland. The species has hitherto been considered ex- 

 clusively South American : and as the skins of our birds might 

 easily have been imported from America into New Holland, we 

 consider it extremely doubtful that they were natives of the 

 latter country. The subject is one of importance, as involving 

 not merely the fact of the wide dispersion of a species, but of 

 the existence of a group in New Holland as yet unnoticed there ; 

 and we therefore consider it prudent merely to state the above 

 circumstances without any further comment. 



Fam. CoitviD.T.. 



Genus. Ckacticus. Jlcill. (Barita. Ci/v.) 



1. TiBiCEN. Cr. nigcr, nucJià, iccfricibi/s alariuii, durso iinu, 



îiropi/gio, crisso, caiidicquc basi (dbis. 

 Coracias tibicen. Lath. Ind. Ont. Siipp. p. xxvii. no. 2. 

 Piping Roller. Id. Gen. Hist. iii. p. 8(). no. 23. 



" The birds of this species," j\Ir. Caley informs us, " are gre- 

 garious, and found only in particular places. In the morning 

 they make a loud whistling noise high up in the trees. — The 

 natives call the species Ca'ruck : and they tell me it builds its 

 nest of sticks lined with grass in Iron-bark and Appk-trces (a 

 species of Angophora). It has three young ones. — These birds 



* Genus. Lamprotohnis. Tcmm. 



MORIO. I.nmp. curpoic toto nigru, /iiclul/ict' nib/iileiifc. 



Ro'itniin pe(les<[uc nigri. Longitude corporis, [)^; a/tc a carpo ad rcmigcm secun- 

 dam, .Î ; caiiflic, jAJ; roitri ad frontem, i|j, ud lictuni, 1 fg ; tursi, ]-^^. 



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