Miscellaneous. 77 fasciatis ; rectricibus caudce cervinis, nigrescenti-fusco irregula-riter fasciatis et maculatis; duabus centralibus cinereo-fuscis ; gutture, pectore et abdomine ad partem superiorem nigrescenti-fuscis, singulis plumis cervino maculatis ; abdomine imo pallide cer-vine-, singulis plumis nigrescenti-fusco transversim fasciatis ; ros-trofusco ; pedibus pallide fuscis. Long. tot. unc. 6f ; rostri, 1 ; alte, 5 J ; caudce, 3 ; tarsi, |. Obs. Mr. J. E. Gray believes this bird to be from Demerara, or the Brazils ; the specimen is in the collection at the British Museum, and so far as I am aware is unique. Mr. Gould afterwards exhibited a species of Ibis, having many characters in common with the Ibis religiosa of Cuvier, and two new species of the genus Platalea, which were accompanied with the fol-lowing descriptions. Ibis strictipennis. — lb* capite et collo superiore nudis, et nigre-scentifuscis, cceruleo lavatis ; corpore toto, et alis albis, cervino lavatis ; plumis in guld longis, angustis, lanceolatis et rigidis ; primariis ad apices cceruleo-viridibus ; tertiariis valde productis et nigro-cceruleis, albo spar sis ; tarsis et spatio nudo sub aid rufo-fuscis. Long. tot. unc. 30 ; rostri, 6 ; alee, 14-J-; caudce ■, 6 ; tar si , 4. Hah. Australia. Platalea regia. Plat, crista occipitali pendente et corpore toto, pectore excepto, albo ; pectore fiavo parum lavato ; fronte facie anteriori et guld plumis prorsus nudis ; notd super oculos atque in occipite medio aurantiacd. Long. tot. unc. 39 ; rostri, 8^ ; alee, 15 ; caudce, 5i; tarsi, 5±. Hah. Nova Cambria Australi. Fcem. differt a mare adulto, staturd minore. Platalea flavipes. Plat, corpore toto albo ; parte faciei nudd angustiore quam in Plat, regia ; parte nudd et rostro aurantiacis; pedibus flavis. Long. tot. unc. 28 ; rostri, 7\; alce,\^\\ caudce, 5^; tarsi, 4$. Hab. Nova Cambria Australi. MISCELLANEOUS. HELMINTHOLOGY. D. C. M. Dresing, in the Nova Acta Phys. Med. xii., has given twopapers onHelminthology; one a monograph of the genus Tristoma, describing four species, one of them hitherto unknown ; and the other on some new genera and species of this animal, amongst which is a fifth Tristoma. — J. E. Gray.
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