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CEREOFS1S NOVA HOLLANDI/E, 



( 'er. — Cineriua tectricibus alarum atribus raaculis ornatis. 



NEW HOLLAND CEREOPSIS. 

 Cer. blue grey, spotted on the wing coverts with black. 



IN. 



Length 34 Middle toe 3£ 



Outer 3- 



II iiul toe 11 



IN. 



Tarsi 4 Outer 3—2^ 



8 



Cer. : blueish grey, with the tail, under and upper tail coverts, and a few spots on the scapulars, 

 black; bill black ; cere covering the nostrils greenish yellow ; webs scolloped, as in the Sandwich 

 Island goose; nostrils large and round; legs orange ; feet black. 



Cereopsis .\ bvee Hollandiai Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. 67. 



Anser Griseus Veil!. 2 edit. Die. Hist. Nat. '23— 338. 



Cereopsis cendree Temm. PI. col. 2 ; . 



Now found in most of our large museums ; has also been brought over alive. Appears to dread 

 the water, and feed chiefly on grass. Inhabits New Holland. 



In the Zoological Proceedings for January 25, 1831, we find the following: Mr. Yarrell 

 stated, that having examined the body of the bird, he had remarked that its trunk was much 

 shorter than that of the true geese, and more triangular in its shape ; the pectoral muscles were 

 large and dark coloured; the trachea was of large and nearly uniform calibre, without convolution, 

 and attached in its descent to the right side of the neck, as in the heron and bittern ; in the form 

 of its bone of divarication and bronchice it most resembled the same part in the geese. The muscles 

 of voice were two pairs, one pair attached to the shafts of the os furcatorium, the other to the inner 

 lateral surface of the sternum. The lobes of the liver were of large size, morbidly dark in colour ; 

 their substance broke down under the finger on the slightest pressure. The stomach, a true gizzard, 

 was of small size as compared with the bulk of the bird. The first duplicature of intestine was six 

 inches in length, at the returning portion of which the biliary and pancreatic ducts entered ; from 

 thence to the origin of the caeca four feet six inches ; the caeca nine inches each ; the colon and 

 rectum together five inches : the whole length of the intestines was seven feet five inches. The 

 stomach and intestinal viscera were loaded with fat; the other parts exhibited nothing remarkable. 

 Internally this bird, which was a male, resembled the true geese, but externally, in the character of 

 the bones, particularly in the rounded form of the edge, and great depth of the keel of the sternum, 

 and the lateral situation of the trachea in reference to the cervical vertebrae, it was decidedly similar 

 to the Ardeithc. 



