Shell one inch and a half long, and smooth; the base and spire with faint remote grooves; the spiral whorls are scarcely convex, and their upper margins prominent. Outer lip thick, effuse, slightly reflected below, and contracted above. Pillar five-plaited; colour yellowish white, with two or three waved longitudinal bands of orange, and a few others broad and remote on the spire. A finer specimen I have since seen with Mr. Humphrey's was one inch three quarters long, the ground-colour pure white, the aperture orange, and the bands rich orange-chesnut. * * * * * MITRA australis. _New Holland Mitre._ * * * * * _M. (Div. 2) testa laevissima; spira elongata; anfractibus basi castaneo-fuscis; fascia alba in basali anfractu, centrali. Columella 4-plicata._ Shell very smooth. Spire elongated, chesnut-brown; base of the spiral volutions with a whitish band, which is central on the basal whorl. Pillar four-plaited. * * * * * Dead shells of this new Mitre were received from Van Dieman's Land by Mr. Humphrey: it is perfectly destitute of striae, excepting a few faint ones at the base: the mouth, which is smooth inside, appeared in the few specimens he had, to be unformed; it is, however, sufficiently distinct from any other. * * * * * Pl. 19 [Illustration] TINAMUS Tataupa, _var._ _Tataupa Tinamou._ * * * * * GENERIC CHARACTER. _Rostrum mediocre, depressum, latius quam altum, apice rotundato obtuso; culmine lato, excelso. Nares laterales, mediae, ovatae, patulae, apertae. Pedes tetradactyli, fissi; halluce brevissimo, insistente. Cauda nulla, aut brevissima, plumis uropygii obtecta. Alae breves._ Temminck, vol. iii. p. 747. Typus Genericus _T. rufescens_. Latham. Bill moderate, depressed, broader than high, tip obtuse, back broad. Nostrils lateral, medial, ovate, expanded and open. Feet four-toed, cleft; hind toe very short. Tail none or very short, concealed by the rump-feathers. Wings short. Generic Type _T. rufescens_. Latham. * * * * * SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _T. corpore supra fusco-rufo, immaculato; capite et collo fusco-nigro; mento albo; gula, collo, pectoreque cinereis; corpore infra albescente; uropygio lateribusque posticis rufis aut nigris, pennis albo-marginatis._ Tinamou with the body above dusky-rufous, immaculate. Head and neck dusky-black; chin white; throat, neck and breast, cinereous; body beneath whitish; vent and flanks rufous or black, the feathers margined with white. Tinamus Tataupa. _Temminck Pig. et Gall._ iii. _p._ 590 _et_ 752. _Gen. Zool. vol._ xi. _part_ 2. _p._ 416. * * * * *