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 arriyed 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 afiliction to his bereaved family. 
i Ptilonopus, mentioned on page 102, is nearly allied to the Columba 
vio eee figured in the Iconographie Ornithologique of O, des Murs, pl. iv., 
we es, that the Specimen is in the Parisian Museum, and that its locality is 
Nini Tho bird brought by the Rattlesnake differs from Q. des Murs’ figure, 
the ae the pinkish purple, which there isjrepresented as covering the centre of 
bird of ee that part with the vent and under tail-covers being in the present 
ie a pale lemon yellow, They are most probably distinct, and if so, Mr. Gould 
Suggested the specific name of P. etnetus for it.— W. J. 
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