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New Species of Birds. 
with two or three zigzag lines near their tip; all the under 
surface light bud', the tips of the flank feathers barred with 
black; tail blackish brown, broadly lipped with buff; bill 
black; feet blackish brown. 
Total length,24 inches; bill, 1J; wing,12; tail, 8A; tarsi,2^. 
Hab. Western Australia. 
On the 8th September, 1840, Mr. Gould presented a new 
species of jRhipidura , which has hitherto been confounded with 
the Motacilla fiabcllifera of Latham ; Mr. Gould proposed to 
characterise it as 
Rhipidura ai/biscapa. It hi. nigrescentifusca ; rectricibus 
caudfs ad apices , et per scapos albis . 
All the upper surface, ear-coverts, and a band across the 
chest, sooty-black, slightly tinged with olive, the tail and 
crown of the head and pectoral band being rather the darkest; 
stripe over the eye, lunar-shaped mark bcmind the eye, throat, 
tips of the wing coverts, margins of the secondaries, shafts, 
outer webs and tips of all but the two middle tail-feathers, 
white; under surface buff; eyes black; bill and feet brownish 
black. 
Total length, 6 inches; bill, g; wing, 3; tail, 3J ; tarsi, g. 
Hab. Van Diemen’s Land and the southern coast of Aus¬ 
tralia. 
On the 10th November, 1840, Mr. Gould exhibited a new 
specimen of 
Euphema aurantia. Euph. vitta frontali lazulino- 
c(ended ; loris viridibus; abdomine maculd grandi splen - 
elide aurantiacd ornato. 
Male. —Frontal band blue, margined before and behind 
with a very faint line of greenish blue; crown of the head 
and all the upper surface deep grass-green; shoulders, many 
of the secondaries, and outer edges of the primaries deep 
indigo-blue; lores, cheeks and breast yellowish-green, passing 
into greenish yellow on the abdomen and under tail-coverts, 
the centre of the abdomen being ornamented with a large spot 
of rich orange; two centre tail-feathers green ; the next, on 
each side, blackish brown on the inner, and green on the outer 
webs; the remainder blackish brown on their inner, and green 
on their outer webs, and largely tipped with bright yellow ; 
irides very dark brown, becoming lighter on the under side; 
legs and feet dull brown. 
Female .—Possesses the orange spot, but in her it is neither 
so extensive nor so brilliant. 
Total length, 8i inches : wing, 4 \; tail, 4\ ; tarsi, g. 
Ilab. Van Diemen’s Land and the Actaeon Islands in 
D’Entrecasteaux Channel,— Magazine of Natural History , 
Vol. V., Nos. 46 & 47. 
