lines Length of sternum 16 Breadth anteriorly 7 posteriorly 11 Width of fissures 4 Depth of ditto 6 keel 7 Length of pelvis 16½ Width anteriorly 6 posteriorly 12 Length from occiput to point of bill 16 Breadth of head 6½ Length of coracoids 7½ No. of cervical vertebræ 14 dorsal 6 sacral 12 caudal 7 —— Total 39 —— No. of true ribs 6 false ditto 2 —— Total 8 Remarks. The bill of this curious bird much resembles that of the genus _Glareola_, but the soft skin covering the nostrils is more developed, in which respect it resembles the quails, and other gallinaceous birds. The structure of the tarsi, feet, and nails approach near to that of _Strepsilas_, but differ in the latter being sharper, and in the scales on the feet and tarsi being more apparent, which may, perhaps, have been caused to a certain degree by the bird having been for a long while in spirits. The wing has precisely the same structure as in _Glareola_, and some of the plovers. The tail is more lengthened than among the plovers, but not more so than in _Glareola praticola_, which species has, however, the tail forked, but some of the same genus, as the last named bird, although it is not so long in them, have it in the same shape as in _Tinochorus_,—as _Glareola Australis_. The structure of the digestive organs is altogether that of a gallinaceous bird; the skeleton, however, agrees scarcely in any particular with that order, approaching closely to that of the waders. The sternum differs from any gallinaceous bird with which I am acquainted, in wanting entirely the strong lateral process, and in the fissures on the posterior margin being much smaller; the nearest approach in form which I have been able to find, is that of _Machetes_, from which, if it were not for the superior size of the latter, it could scarcely be distinguished.