ORNITHOLOGY OF SECTION D, 1850. 
done in every department should be submitted to the next meeting 
of the British Association, by which time Mr. M‘Gillivray will have 
returned to this country. 
The very next mail that arrived from Sydney, brought the melan- 
choly intelligence of the death of Captain Stanley, the commander 
of the expedition, to whose kindness and liberality science is greatly 
indebted for the acquisition of the many novelties alluded to in this 
paper, who, like his venerable father, the late Bishop of Norwich, 
ever evinced a warm desire to promote the study of Natural His- 
tory, and whose death, following so soon upon that of the excellent 
prelate, must have been a sore affliction to his bereaved family. 
Note to Mr, Gould’s Paper—“ A brief account of the Researches of 
John M'Gillivray, Esq., in HLMLS. Rattlesnake,” ec. : 
Lanysiptera Sylvia, Gould. Bill and feet sealing-wax red; crown 
of the head, wings, and five lateral tail-feathers on each side, blue; 
ae back of the neck, and mantle, black; in the centre of the 
atter a triangular mark of white; rump and two middle tail-feathers, 
which exceed ten inches in length, pure white ; all the under surface 
cinnamon red, 
About the size of 7. Dea. | 
Vide Proc. of Zool. Soc. May 14th, 1850. 
in ta (Syma ?) Jlavirostris, Gould. Bill fine yellow, passing 
coverts mes the tip; crown of the head, back of the neck, ear- 
rien oa flanks, cinnamon red; at the back of the neck a narrow 
whites ty M of black ; throat and lower part of the abdomen tawny 
Smith ck and wings sordid green ; rump and tail greenish blue. 
er, but nearly allied to the Syma Torotoro of M. Lesson. 
Vide Proc. of Zool. Soc. May 14th, 1850. 
fee Too, hupereiiaria Gould. Lores white ; immediately above 
town of in oe a black mark forming a conspicuous moustache ; 
chestnut req - ead and upper surface reddish brown, passing into 
‘a nm the Tump and six middle tail-feathers ; remainder of 
