Zoological Society of London. 
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Total length, 5f inches; bill, g ; wing, 2jj; tail, 2f ; tarsi, f. 
Hab. Australia. 
Remark. —For ihc loan of this new species I am indebted to 
the kindness of H. E. Strickland, Esq. 
Calamoiikrpe i.ONGinosTkis. Cal. vittd pallidd, supra ocu- 
los cervind; corpore supernh rufo, subtits saturate cervino; 
mento albido. 
Faint line over the eye fawn-colour; all the upper surface 
reddish brown, becoming more rufous on the upper tail-coverts; 
primaries and tail dark brown, fringed with rufous ; chin whitish ; 
all the under surface deep fawn-colour; irides yellowish brown. 
Total length, 6} inches; bill, 15-16ths; wing, 3; tail, 3; 
tarsi, 1. 
Hab. Western Australia. 
May 13, 1845.—Description of a new species of Mitra, by 
Lovell Reeve, Esq.:— 
Mitra ro rticostata. Mitr. testd abbreviato-ovatd, spil'd 
subterritd ; anfractibus supemb angulatus, infra angulum 
longitudinaliter costatis, costis solidis fortissimis, distantibus, 
basim versus subobsolete granosis ; nigerrimo-fuscd ; colum- 
elld quadriplicatd. 
Conch. Icon., Mitra, pi. 30. f. 238. 
Hab. New Holland. 
Resembling Mitra ficulina, but of a much more solid and 
angular structure. 
May 27, 1845.—Mr. Gould exhibited to the Meeting four new 
species of Birds from Australia, which he characterized as 
follows:— 
Ardea (Herodias) picata, Ard. capite snperiore, occipite, 
plumis occipitalibus, corpore superiore, caudd, alisque cmru- 
leo-nigris; mento nuchd, pectore, et quibusdam plumis a 
pectore dependentibus albis. 
Upper part of the head, occiput, occipital plumes, the whole 
of the plumage of the body, wings and tail, bluish slaty black ; 
