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Foem. vel Mas Junior vittd frontali caret, et colorem habet indi- 



stinctiorem. 

 Long. tot. 9 unc. ; alee, 4| ; canda, 5\ ; tarsi, \. 

 Hah. In terra Van Diemen "i 



Platycercus flaveolus. Plat, fronte cocdneo ; huccis pallide 

 cceruleis ; summo capite, nucha, et dorso, uropygio, tectricibus 

 caudcB superioribus, corporeque inferne pallide Jlavidis, plumis 

 dorsi parteque inferiori tectricum alee majorum centris nigris 

 externe Jlavescentibus ; alis mediis cyaneis ; aid spuria pri- 

 mariisque externe ad basin saturate violaceis ; reliquis prima- 

 rium saturate brunneis ; rectricibus duabus intennediis caudce 

 ad basin viridescentibus, ad apicem cceruleis, reliquis rectricum 

 ad basin exteriorem saturate cceruleis, apicibus pallidioribus, 

 plumis interne fere per totam longitudinem brunneis, apicibus 

 extremis albis ; rostra livido ; pedibus fuscis. 



Long. tot. 1-3J unc. ; alee, 7 ; caudcB, 7^ ; tarsi, ^. 



Hah. in Nov^ Cambria Australi. 



HiMANTOPUs LEUCOCEPHALus. Him. ulbus J tmchd, dorso, alis- 

 que nigris, nitore viridi ; rostro nigro ; pedibus riifis. 



Long. tot. 15 unc; rostri, 2\; alee, 85; caudce, 3; tarsi ad 

 primum articulum 4, spatii nudi super eum 2\. 



Obs. This is a well-known species, but has hitherto been con- 

 founded with the Himantopus melanopterus, under which title it 

 has been described by various authors. 



Hab. Australia et insulis Java, Sumatra. 



Mr. Gould also characterized two new species of the genus Sterna, 

 from the collection in King's CoUege, and a species of Cormorant in 

 the United Service Museum, and three species of the genus Or- 

 pheus, from the Galapagos, in the collection of Mr. Darwin. 



Sterna poliocerca. Stern.fronte cinerascenti-albo i?i nigrum ad 

 occiput mergente ; gutture, collo antice et postice, corporeque 

 subtits albis ; corpore supra, alis, cauddque cinerascetitibus ; 

 rostro fiavo ; pedibus nigris. 



Long. tot. 17^ unc. ; rostri, 2| ; alcB, 12| ; caudae, 7 ; tarsi, 1. 



Hab. in terrel Van Diemen. 



Sterna macrotarsa. Stern, vertice et nuchd nigris ; corpore su- 

 pra primariisque argenteo-cinerascentibu^ ; partibus reliquis 

 corporis albis ; rostro pedibusque nigris. 



Long. tot. 15 unc; rostri, 2^; alee, 12; caudce, 5\ ; tarsi, 1|. 



Hab. in terra Van Diemen. 



Phalacrocorax brevirostris. Phal. rostro jiavo culmine ad 

 basinque nigrescenti-fuscis ; gutture plumis auricularibus genis- 

 que albis. Nuchd pectore corporeque subtus cum caudd nitide 



