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Show 642 MR. J. GOULD ON A NEW FRUIT-PIGEON. [Nov. 7, equalling more than one half of the length of the whole shell; aperture broadly ovate, interior bluish white; peristome simple, acute, straight, thin, the anterior and outer margins arched ; columella straight, nearly vertical above, slightly expanded and reflected, with a thin deposit of callus on the columellar side, and joined at the upper part of the peristome. Length 2, breadth l£, alt. I ; aperture If long, breadth f inch. Hab. Snowy River, Gipps Land, Victoria (Mr. W. Kershaw). This fine species I have named in honour of its discoverer, Mr. W . Kershaw of Victoria, to whom I am indebted for a specimen. It approaches in appearance to B. larregi, Brazier, and B. atomatus, Gray. It differs from those species in not having the dark spots and zigzag lines that are so characteristic in them. 5. Description of a new Species of Fruit-Pigeon from the Fiji Islands. By J O H N G O U L D , F.R.S. [Received November 7, 187L] The beautiful bird which I have now the pleasure of exhibiting to the Meeting, and which I propose to call Chryscena victor, is the second species of the genus, of which C. luteovirens is the type. For the loan of one of the two specimens exhibited I am indebted to Mr. James Gardner of Oxford Street, and for the use of the other to the Trustees of the Derby Museum at Liverpool, through the kind intercession of their Curator Mr. T. J. Moore. The latter specimen is so similar to the former in colouring and general appearance as to induce the belief that the two birds are of the same age and adult males. How evident it is, from the discovery of this extremely conspicuous and beautiful Pigeon, that the acquisition of new species is not yet at an end, and that such islands as those composing the Fiji group, and hundreds of others dotted over the Polynesian region, will yet afford ornithological and other treasures of natural history which have not as yet met the gaze of civilized and scientific men! I append a description of this new species, and shall take an early opportunity of publishing a copy of the drawing now shown of the London and Liverpool birds in one of m y publications-the ' Birds of Asia,' or the ' Supplement to the Birds of Australia.' CHRYSCENA VICTOR, Gould. Size. About, or perhaps a trifle larger than, that of C. luteovirens. Colour. The entire surface of the body, both above and below, a lovely carmineous-orange, while the head and throat, as if in direct contrast to the brilliant colouring of the body, is of a dull silvery pea-green; under surface of the wings rich pure yellow, the primaries becoming orange on the upper surface of their outer webs, and their shafts dark olive above. Total length 7 inches; bill f, wing 4^, tail 2\, tarsi f. |