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Conch. Icon., Pectunculus, pl. 6. f. 35. 
Hab. Australia. 
The valves of this shell are entirely covered with beautiful thread- 
like ribs, and the interstices are filled with fine roots of epidermis, 
arranged in from three to four rows. 
Mr. Gould read a paper on the habits of Leipoa, drawn up from 
accounts which he had recently received from His Excellency G. 
Grey, Governor of South Australia, and Mr. Gilbert. The notes of 
these two careful observers, though made in distant parts of Austra- 
lia, were confirmatory in all essential particulars of the account of 
the habits of this curious bird as published by Mr. Gould in his work 
on the Birds of Australia. The notes moreover contained various 
interesting additional facts, and were illustrated by sectional draw- 
ings of the mound constructed for the deposit of the eggs. 
Mr. Gould then called attention to a new species of Kangaroo-rat, 
which he exhibited, and thus characterizes :— 
Berroncra campxstris. Bett. vellere longo, molli ; corpore supra 
Fusco, albo-penicillato, subtis sordidé albo; auribus mediocribus 
intits pilis sordid albis, subflavescentibus tinctis ; tarsi longi, gra- 
ciles, pilis pallidis, flavescenti-lavatis ; caudd longd (capite corpo- 
reque fere equante) plerumque pilis brevibus, adpressis, pallide 
rufo-flavescentibus vestitd, subtiis et ad apicem pallidiore. 
unc. lin. 
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caude basin.... 15 9 
—_______— ad basin auris .... 2' 8 
MULL PRO AAT sola e Se wig he LT AP OMAN | bad | 
— FT 11/1 ana celal sain Aa ited 
tarsi digitorumque.......... --- 4 10 
Hab. South Australia. 
In the texture and colouring of the fur this little animal greatly 
resembles the common European Hare. The under-fur is dense, 
long and soft; grey next the skin, and sooty brown externally; but 
this last colour is confined to the tip of each hair, there being a con- 
siderable space between the grey and brown portions, which is of a 
very pale yellowish brown : interspersed with the under-fur (especially 
on the back) is an abundance of very long and harsher hairs, the 
visible portion of which is of a brownish white colour, except the 
extreme point of each hair, which is blackish. The sides of the body 
are of a pale dirty yellowish tint, and the under parts are dirty white. 
The feet and tail are of an uniform very pale yellowish brown. The 
ears are short and rounded, but with the apical portion slightly con- 
tracted in width; they are well-clothed with pale dirty yellowish 
hairs, except on the fore-part of the outer side, where there is an 
admixture of deep brown hairs. 
The following ‘“ Notices of Fishes newly observed or discovered in 
Madeira during the years 1840, 1841, and 1842,” by the Rev. R. T. 
Lowe, M.A., Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society, were 
communicated to the Meeting. 
