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sowary of which I have recently obtained a young example for the 

 Society in exchange from the Zoological Gardens at Rotterdam. It 

 is easily distinguishable by the throat- caruncles being placed far 

 apart on the sides of the throat, lighter colouring, &c. As the bird 

 itself will shortly arrive in this country, I hope to be able to give full 

 particulars concerning this new species at the next Meeting of the 

 Society. 



IV. Drom^us. 



At a Meeting of this Society in May last *, Mr. Bartlett gave us 

 some indications of the existence of a second species of Emeu in 

 South Australia, and proposed to call it Dromceus irroratus. I have 

 lately had the pleasure of examining two specimens of this Emeu in 

 Holland. One of these, now in the Gardens of the Zoological Society 

 of Amsterdam, was brought from Albany in Western Australia, and 

 thus renders it probable that the Spotted Emeu is the western repre- 

 sentative of the D. Novce Hollandice. The second, now in the Zoo- 

 logical Gardens at Rotterdam, I have obtained by exchange for this 

 Society ; and as we may hope to see it in our own Gardens in a few 

 days alongside the Eastern species, I reserve further notice of it 

 until I have had a more satisfactory opportunity for its examination . 



It thus appears that there are some grounds for supposing that 

 the species of Struthionidce now in existence may amount to not less 

 than fourteen or fifteen in number. 



On the Black-shouldered Peacock of Latham (Pavo 

 nigripennis). By P. L. Sclater. 



The species of the genus Pavo generally recognized by naturalists 

 since the time of Linnaeus have been two in number — the Common 

 Peacock (Pavo cristatus), and the Javanese or Green Peacock (Pavo 

 muticus). My present object is to call the attention of the Society 

 to what seems to be a third distinct species, in some respects inter- 

 mediate between these two, and which, though long since introduced 

 into Europe and often bred in our aviaries, appears in some myste- 

 rious manner to have almost escaped the notice of naturalists, and 

 to have been left unprovided with a specific name up to this time. 



The bird I allude to is the Black-shouldered Peacock of Latham's 

 1 General History' (vol. viii. p. 1 14), where its differences from the true 

 Pavo cristatus are accurately pointed out. They are, indeed, very 

 obvious on comparison of either sex of these two birds, as may be 

 seen by any one who will take the trouble to inspect the fine series 

 of Pea-fowl belonging to C. Clifton, Esq., now under the Society's 

 care in the Regent's Park Gardens. 



In the Black-shouldered Peacock of Latham (a term which I pro- 

 pose to Latinize into Pavo nigripennis), the metallic green of the 

 back, which forms the centre of the train, when expanded, is of a 

 more golden hue than in P. cristatus, which it otherwise most gene- 



* See Annals for April 1860, p. 333. 



