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Class AVES. 



Sub-Class PALAEOGNATHAE. 



OKDEii OARUARIIFORMES. 



Family DROIMTCKIIDATC. 



Genus DROMICEIUS. 



Drnmirrhis Vieillot, Aiial//sr Mini: Oniilh. p. 54. Isu;. 



Type (by monotypy) : JJ. iwraehollaiiiliae (Latham). 



1. Dromiceius novaehollandiae novaehoUandiae. 



Casiiarliix nnrarhnlhuuHai; Latham, Index Oruitli. ii. p. ul>5. 1700 : Sydney, New South Wales. 



Synonyms : 



Casnarius a»s(/v)/;.< Shaw, Nnl. MhreU. vol. iii. pi. S)!l. 1702 ; New South Wales. 

 Drnmaius titer Vieillot, Nrmr. Diet. d'Hht. Nat. vol. x. p. 212. 1S17 : New South Wales. 

 Dromiceiis emu Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool. vol. xiv. pi. 30. 1820 : New South Wales. 

 Dromaem irromtiia Bartlett, Prne. Zool. Soe. {Lnml.) 1859. p. 205 : interior of New South Wales. 



Eastern Emn. 



Mathews, Handlist No. 1 (pars). 



Range : Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia. 



'i. Dromiceius novaehollandiae woodwardi subsp. n. 



North- Western Emu. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 1 (pars). 



Differs from D. n. novaehollandiae in its more slender legs and lighter 

 coloration. 



Type : Strelly River, North-West Australia. No. 9367. 

 Range : North-West Australia and Northern Territory. 



3. Dromiceius novaehollandiae rothschildi subsp. n. 

 South-"\Vesteru Emu. 

 Mathews, Handlist No. 1 (pars). 



Differs from D. n. noraeliollandiae in having dark bases to the feathers and 

 generally darker all over. 



Type : Gracefield, Soutli-West Australia (in Tring Museum). 

 Range : South-West Australia. 



Xote. — In the Birds of Australia I accepted the spelling Dromai/ts for the 

 genn.s name ; but consistently with my methods as expressed in the /-^mie, vol. x. 

 p. 31S (1911)), I must revert to the original Dromieeius. 



In the Birds of Australia I showed that D. irroratus Bartlett, in common 

 use for the West Australian Emu, was proposed for a young bird from the interior 

 of New South Wales, and consequently inapjilieable. As ray series did not permit 

 me to diagnose the differential characters of that form, 1 was compelled to refer 

 the whole of the specimens to I). //. noeachollandiae. Recent acquisitions, 

 however, prove that the North- Western and South- Western forms are separable, 

 and as no names are available, I jiropose to dedicate one to Mr. Bernard H, 



