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Island. There have been 19 executions and 17 persons killed 
while resisting lawful authority; but only two suicides. The 
educational statistics are not such favorable evidence to the moral 
effects of instruction as most others; and it is said that the re¬ 
cent convicts imported from England, though superior to the 
older in education, are equally remarkable for indifference to 
their moral duties. 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF 
LONDON. 
January 23, 1844. 
Mr. Mitchell, on the part of Mr. Gould, communicated to the 
Society a new species of Psophodes, which he described as Pso- 
phodes nigrogularis. 
Also an additional example of the genus Amadina , perhaps the 
loveliest of the tribe yet discovered, remarkable for the great 
beauty and singularity of the hues with which it is adorned, the 
breast being crossed by a broad band of lilac, a colour so rarely 
found in birds, that he does not recollect any example of the same 
tint. Mr. Gould has hitherto seldom adopted the practice of 
many naturalists, of naming new species from individuals con¬ 
nected with science; in this instance he has been induced to 
depart from his usual course, in order to pay a tribute of respect 
to the memory of the late Mrs. Gould, who assisted him so 
zealously and with such talent in his ornithological pursuits. For 
this bird, of most graceful form and delicate colour, he proposes 
the name of Amadina Gouldice . 
Psophodes nigrogularis. Psoph . corpore superiore olivaceo; 
inferiore cinereo apud latera fusccscente, abdornine medio 
albo; caudd pallidb olivaceo-fused, rectricibus quatuor ex - 
terms apicem versus nigro vittatis, apicibus albis; guld 
nigerrimd , strigd albd ab angulo mandibulce inferioris ten- 
dent e modb nigro inclusd. 
Plumage of the upper surface olive; under surface ashy, passing 
into brown on the flanks and white on the centre of the abdomen; 
primaries brown; tail light olive-brown, the four lateral feathers 
