( 1-6) 



Woodward, ('iirator of the Perth Museum, West Australia, as a mark of appre- 

 ciation of ills vahiable aid ; and the other to m)- friend the IIdm. Walter Rothschild, 

 for the same reason. 



There formerly existed iu Australia three island forms of Emn, about wliich 

 I have given detailed accounts of all we know iu my liinls of Australia, vol. i. 

 The nomenclature there accepted needs emendation, however, and the following 

 names 1 believe to be more accurate : 



Dromiceiiix noraehollandiae diemenensia Lo Souei' (Tasmania). 



1 >rom.iceiiiH peroni RoVciiicXn\(!i (Kangaroo Island). 



Iiromicrins minor Spencer (King Island).* 



{Promaeus bnssi Legge, Emu, vol. vi. p. IIK (l'-'07), King Island, is a 

 synonym of the latter.) 



In my Birds of Australia I accepted D. pnrculus Gould for the Kangaroo 

 Island form ; but at the qviotation given (Broderip, Petimj Cijdop. vol. xxiii. 

 p. 145, 1843) that name can only be construed as a inide name. I therefore now 

 use Rothschild's name for tliat species. 



Family CASUARIIDAE. 

 Genus CASXTABinS. 



Casiiai-ius Latham, Jmlr.r Oniilh. ii. p. 664. 1790. 



Ty])e (by tautonymy) : 0. casuarius Linnd. 



4. Casuarius casuarius johnsonii. 



C'tsuarius jnhnmtiii Mueller, Pru\ Zw>l. S'lf. (Lund.) 1867. p. -i2 : Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 

 Synonym : 



C. auslrnHs (not Shaw) Gould, Proc. Zool. Sw. (Lnml.) li^fu. p. 270. 



Australian Cassowary. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 4. 

 Range : North Queensland. 



Sub-Class NEOGNATHAE. 



Order GALLI FORMES. 



Family MBGAPODIIDAE. 



Genus MEGAFODIUS. 



Me.gapodiu.1 Temminck & Laugier, Plan. Colui: d'Ois. 37' livr. vol. ii. pi. l'2ii. 1823. 

 Type (by monotypy) : M. freycineti Temminck. 



5. Megapodius duperreyi tumulus. 



Mrgapodiun tumidiis, Gould, Prnr, /.,„,l_ S,„:, {Lund.) 1812. p. 20 (1842) ; Cobourg Peninsula. 



Western Scrub Fowl. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 5 (pars). 

 Range : Northern Territory. 



As I am not ronvincerl that the bones nameil minor by Spencer are tlip .>iainc as the bird figured 

 by me (plate 4, iu my liirdi uj Australia). I name the ]attei Drmn in- in. i sjxiircri. noni nov. 



