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Gorilla munyema is that I Lave secu several Simia rdlcrosus fuligiiioaus and 

 Simia sati/i-us niarungensis fidm that region, and they do not agree at all with 

 the stnfTed female in Paris described by the above-named authors. I therefore 

 think it may well be a much distorted skin of a female gorilla. 



1 have recently received au adult male skull and pliotograph which clearly 

 sh6w that the Congo gorillas have a still narrower and more elongated skull than 

 those from Gaboon, and have very sharply defined pale and dark areas iu the 

 pelage, so I think the name of G. g. mnni/ema mnst be resuscitated. 



NOTE ON CASILIEIUS CASVABIUS BISTRIATUS Oort. 

 I!v THK HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D. 



IN the Xotes from tlie lj-ij<len Mnseiim for 1907-8, Dr. van Oort has described 

 under the al ove name a race of G<isuiir>us cas/inriits from the north coast of 

 Dutch New Guinea. I can cunfirm his diagnosis, as I have had some seven or 

 eiu'ht specimens of the bird alive. Dr. van Oort, however, ought not to have 

 confused it even for a moment with C. c. beccarii, as 1 specially .state in my 

 monograph that C. c. beccarii is confined to Vokan Island, iu the Am Islands. 

 I hesitated to describe the bird from the north coast, as I was not sure of its 

 relationship to ('. c. altijugm Sol. and C. c. saluadorii Oust., both from Dutch 

 New Guinea. As, however, my three mounted specimens (one at Tring and two 

 in the British Museum) agree i/iter se and are considerably smaller than 

 C. c. sclateri, I think the form is fairly distinct and fully entitled to a name. 

 The New Guinea Cassowaries of the C. casuarius group therefore number now 

 seven in all, and if my C. e. ckimaera is also from the true Papuan region there 

 would be eight, as follows : 



Casuarius casuarius beccarii. — Vokan Island, Am. 



,, ,, violicollis. — Trangan Island, Am. 



„ bicarunculatus. — Kobroor Island, Aru. 



„ altijugm. — Coasts of Geelvink Bay. 



„ salcadorii. — Berau Peninsula. 



„ bistriatus. — West of Humljoldt Bay. 



„ sclateri. — British New Guinea. 



„ chimacra. — Uncertain. 



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