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are broadly margined with yellow; primaries slaty grey on their 
inner webs, green on the outer, very slightly margined with yellow ; 
tail deep green, largely tipped with rich yellow ; throat greenish grey, 
stained on the chin with yellow in some specimens; in others the 
chin is white ; breast dull green, each feather forked at the end, and 
with a triangular silvery grey spot at either extremity; flanks and 
abdomen green, with a large patch of orange-red in the centre of the 
latter; under tail-coverts orange-yellow; thighs green; irides red- 
dish orange ; bill greenish black, horn-colour at the tip; feet olive- 
brown. 
Total length, 9 inches; bill, 3; wing, 53; tail, 33; tarsi, 3. 
Hab. The brushes of the River Clarence and Moreton Bay. 
Pritinorus Ewineu. P. fronte et vertice roseis, héc colore lined 
flava nisi ad frontem cincto ; pectore virescenti-cinereo plumis bi- 
fidis, et ad apicem pallidé cinereis ; fascia infra pectorali pallid 
sulphured ; abdomine medio saturat® aurantiaco, cum lunuld cen- 
trali helvo-ceruleé ; caude rectricibus ad apicem fiavis, non sine 
tincturd viridi presertim in rectricibus duabus intermediis notanda. 
. Forehead and crown of the head rose-pink, bordered, except in 
front, by a narrow line of yellow; back of the head and neck green- 
ish grey; all the upper surface bright green, passing into deep blue 
on the tertiaries; primaries, secondaries and tertiaries slightly mar- 
gined with yellow ; tail largely tipped with yellow tinged with green, 
particularly on the two centre feathers; chin pale yellow; sides of 
the neck and chest greenish grey, each feather forked at the end and 
tipped with grey; below the chest an indistinct band of sulphur- 
yellow ; flanks and lower part of the abdomen green; centre of the 
abdomen rich orange, in the middle of which is a lunar-shaped mark 
of lilac; under tail-coverts orange; thighs and tarsi green; irides 
reddish orange ; feet olive. 
Total length, 73 inches ; bill, 3; wing, 43; tail, 3; tarsi, 3. 
Hab. Port Essington. 
Mr. Gould next instituted a new genus among the Columbide, 
under the appellation of 
Genus GEorHaps. 
Gen. char.—Rostrum perbreve et robustum. Oculi cute denudata 
circumdati. Ale perbreves et rotundate, apicibus latis. Tursi 
mediocres digitis longiores. Digitus internus paululim ceteris 
longior. 
Of this form a new species was described as 
GEoPHAPS PLUMIFERA. Geo. capite cristd occipitali ornato; hac 
sic et vertice, colli lateribus, pectore et alarum pagind inferiore 
pallide ferrugineis ; gula alternatm albo nigroque fasciato ; pectore 
lunulis duabus albis inter se junctis cuspidemque mediam efficienti- 
bus, ornato. 
Lores and orbits naked, and of a yellowish red; head furnished 
with a lengthened occipital crest, which, with the crown, sides of the 
