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g. Ground-colour pale yellow ; bands increassing in width toward 

 the back of the mouth, where they unite, and where the brown colour 

 extends from front to back of the shell : the peritreme is entirely 

 white, and the circumference of the columella also. Found on leaves 

 of trees on the island of Siquijor. 



h. Ground-colour very pale yellowish ; antesutural band very nar- 

 row and indistinct ; circumferential band broad, pale, and rather ir- 

 regular ; lip and circumference of the columella white. From the 

 island of Siquijor. 



i. Shell entirely of a pale lemon-yellow, except only a narrow an- 

 tesutural dark brown band, which becomes broader towards the lip. 

 Found on leaves of bushes at Tanhay, in the Isle of Negros. 



k. Ground-colour very pale yellow-brown ; a brown circumferential 

 band, which is only perceptible on the latter half of the last volution. 

 From Loboc. 



/. Shell of an uniform pale brownish colour. From Loboc. 



m. Apex reddish-brown ; upper part of the shell pale yellowish 

 brown, increasing rapidly in intensity, so that nearly the whole of 

 the last volution is of a dark chocolate-brown ; columella white ; lip 

 nearly black. From Loboc. 



Mr. Gould completed the exhibition of his fifty new species of 

 Australian birds, and characterized the following new species : — 



A new Entomyza interesting as being the second species of that form. 

 Mr. Gould received this bird from Port Essington, and believes that 

 it there supplies the place of E. cyanotis, which is common on the 

 eastern coast. Its distinguishing characteristics are its rather larger 

 size, the markings of its throat being more strongly defined and the 

 basal half of the primaries being white ; for which reason he proposes 

 to characterize it as 



Entomyza albipennis. Ent. corpora suprh et alls e viridi au- 

 reo-olivaceis ; primariis fuscis ; pogoniis internis per dimidium 

 basale niveis. 



Crown of the head and back of the neck black ; lower part of the 

 face, chin and centre of the chest slaty black ; a crescent-shaped 

 mark at the occiput, a line from the lower mandible passing down 

 each side of the neck and all the under surface pure white ; upper 

 surface and wings greenish golden olive ; primaries brown, the basal 

 half of their inner webs snow-white; tail feathers browTi, tinged with 

 golden olive, all but the two centre ones tipped with white ; bill, 

 bare space surrounding the eye and feet in all probability the same 

 as in E. cyanotis. 



Total length, 12 inches; bill, 1^; wing, 6; tail, 4f ; tarsi, If. 



Hab. Port Essington on the northern coast of Australia. 



Nearly allied to E. cyanotis, but always distinguishable from that 

 species by the white basal half of the primaries. 



A new Myzomela differing from all the other members of the genus 

 in its pied colouring and the black band across the chest, which sug- 

 gests the sijecific name of 



