ORNITHOLOGY OF SECTION D, 1850. 
the tail-feathers black, tipped with white ; wings black, with the base 
of the primaries and the tips of the coverts white, forming two bands 
across the wing; throat and centre of the abdomen fawn white; 
chest and flanks washed with tawny. | 
About the size of D. brunneopygia. 
Vide Proc. of Zool. Soc. May 14th, 1850. 
Carpophaga assimilis, Gould. Head, throat, and ear-coverts, grey; 
all the upper surface, wings, and tail, golden green; wing-coverts 
with a spot of rich yellow at the tip, forming an oblique band across 
the shoulder ; line down the centre of the throat, chest, and abdo- 
men, rich purple; under wing-coverts, vent, thighs, and under tall- 
coverts, rich orange yellow ; basal portion of the inner webs of the 
primaries and secondaries purplish cinnamon. 
Very similar to C. magnifica, but considerably less in all its 
admeasurements, 
Vide Proe. of Zool. Soc. May 14th, 1850. 
Chiamydera cerviniventris, Gould, Upper surface brown, each 
feather narrowly margined and marked at the tip with bufly-white; 
throat striated with greyish-brown and buff; under surface of the 
shoulder, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts, light, pure fawn- 
colour. : 
Intermediate in size between C, auchalis and C. maculata, and tis 
tinguished from both by the fine fawn-colouring of the under surface. 
Vide Proc. of Zool. Soc. May 14th, 1850, 
The species described above, are all from the continent of 
Australia, and were chiefly obtained on Cape York Peninsula. 
Nectarinia Australis, Gould. Crown of the head and upper 8 
face olive green ; over and under the eye, two very indistinct marks of 
yellow ; throat and chest steel blue; remainder of the under surface 
fine yellow ; bill and feet black. 
Differs from WV. frenata in its larger size, in its straighter bill 
and in the stripe of yellow over the eye being almost obsolete. It : 
the bird spoken of in Mr. M‘Gillivray’s paper as WV. pectoralis, whic 
name cannot be retained, as it had been previously applied to anothet 
member of the genus. 
Vide Proc. of Zool. Soc. May 14th, 1850. 
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