and the nakedness of the throat would indicate that the gullet is capable of sufficient dilatation to admit of the passage of articles of food of considerable size. The probably unique specimen from which my figure is taken is very perfect, with the exception of the scales of the front of the tarsi, which are unfortunately wanting; I am consequently left in doubt as to whether the legs as far as the knees, if not the upper part of the tarsi, have or have not been clothed with feathers. The first description of this species was published by Sir William Jardine in the ‘Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ above referred to, wherein he states that “we are indebted to Lady Harvey, whose extensive collection of natural history in Edinburgh is always open when science can be promoted, for a specimen of this remarkable bird;” and adds, “we are aware of no existing description, though there is one allusion made to a bird which may eventually turn out to be this. In Mr. Strickland’s Report on the Recent Progress and Present State of Ornithology, read before the British Association at York, it is stated, ‘The recent American voyage of discovery will extend our knowledge of Polynesian zoology, and its researches will be made known by Mr. Titian Peale, who is said to have discovered among other rarities a new bird allied to the Dodo, which he proposes to name _Didunculus_;’ and we believe ‘_strigirostris_’ has been applied specifically.” The structure of the wing indicates that its powers of flight are considerable. Lores and a small patch on each side of the throat bare and apparently red; head, neck, breast and belly glossy greenish black; feathers of the upper part of the back black, with a crescent-shaped mark of glossy green at the tip of each feather; back, wings, tail and under tail-coverts rich deep chestnut-red; primaries and secondaries greyish black; bill orange; tarsi and feet apparently reddish flesh-colour. The figures represent the bird in two positions of the natural size. [Illustration: TALEGALLA LATHAMI. _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] TALEGALLA LATHAMI. Wattled Talegalla. _New Holland Vulture_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. i. p. 32. _Genus Alectura_, Ibid., vol. x. p. 455. _Alectura Lathami_, Gray, Zool. Misc., No. I. p. 3.—Jard. and Selby, Ill. Orn., vol. iii. pl. cxl. _New Holland Vulture_, Swains. Class. of Birds, vol. i. p. 383. _Catheturus Australis_, Ibid., vol. ii. p. 206. _Meleagris Lindesayii_, Jameson, Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. vii. p. 473. _Brush Turkey_ of the Colonists; _Wee-lah_, Aborigines of the Namoi.