Specimens of this bird have been forwarded to me from South Australia by my excellent friend George Grey, Esq., Governor of that province, and from Swan River by Mr. Gilbert; they reached me simultaneously, the latter fortunately in good order, the former sadly mutilated “by a cat,” writes His Excellency, “which got into the room and ate the heads off the male and female of this entirely new bird, of which I have no other, and which I had ridden fifty miles to procure.” One of Mr. Gilbert’s specimens had been given to him by Mr. Lock Burgess, to which gentleman I am also indebted for several other rare species kindly presented by him to Mr. Gilbert for me, whereby the interest and value of this work is much enhanced. I regret to say that nothing more than is stated above is present at known respecting it. The male has the head, throat, sides of the chest, back, wings, inner webs of the upper tail-coverts, two centre and the tips of the remaining tail-feathers black; the wing-coverts, the base and the margins of both webs of the secondaries, the rump, outer webs of the upper tail-coverts, the under surface and the lateral tail-feathers for three-fourths of their length pure white; irides reddish brown; bill bluish grey, becoming black on the culmen near the tip; naked skin beneath the eye ash-grey; legs and feet greenish grey. The female is light brown, each feather being darkest in the centre; wings and tail dark brown, the former margined with huffy white; under surface buffy white, with a small streak of black near the tip of each feather. The figures represent a male and a female of the natural size. [Illustration: ENTOMOPHILA PICTA: _Gould_. _J. Gould and H. C. Richter del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] ENTOMOPHILA PICTA, _Gould_. Painted Honey-eater. _Entomophila picta_, Gould in Proc. of Zool. Soc., Part V. p. 154.