SPHECOTHERES VIRESCENS. 



Thele ngth of specimen is fully eleven inches, somewhat longer than 

 that described by Messrs Quoy and Gaimard. The eyes are surrounded 

 by a naked reddish skin, stretching on each side to the opening of the 

 rictus ; the crown of the head and upper part of the auricular feathers are 

 pure black ; the lower part of the cheeks, the nape, throat, and upper part 

 of the breast, blackish-grey ; the back, rump, secondaries, and wing-co- 

 verts, are yellowish-green ; the breast and flanks are pale yellowish-green, 

 tinged with grey, and changing into pure white on the centre of the belly, 

 and under tail-coverts ; the quills are black, tipped and edged with grey ; 

 the four centre tail-feathers are black, the others black at the base only, 

 and white toward the extremity, the extent of white increasing on the outer 

 feathers ; the feet and legs appear to have been yellowish. 



We received our specimen from New Holland. Those described in 

 the voyage of Freycinet were found in the Isle of Timor. 



