( .'lo ) 



3. Dorcopsis (?) aurantiacus sp. nov. 



Female (idult. — Head, neck, back, flanks, tail, ami outside of limbs bright rnddy 

 orange, with a golden gloss. Haii- long, thin, and very harsh and bristly. Sides 

 of face, throat, breast, and rest of underside yellowish white strongly mixed with 

 ashy grey. Ears almost naked, large, yellow. Sides of tail and anterior half white. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



Dimensions. 



? (stuffea). 



Head and body T;iO mm. 



Tail . . " 500 „ 



Hindfoot 1>?0 „ 



Ear fill „ 



Note. — This is a perfect skin stuti'ed, but it had no skull when received as a skin. 



CASUABIU8 LOBIAE sp. nov. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD. 



IN the Cutdlogue of Birds, Vol. XXVII., Count Salvadori describes as the adult 

 bird of ('fimarius picticoUis a bird collected in the Moroka district by Dr. 

 Loria, and of which I have seen the sketch taken from the freshly killed bird. This 

 sketch shows all the front and sides of the neck red, while in the type of picticoUis 

 tlic neck is blue, with a tiny red spot in the centre of the foreueck. I have now 

 received fine skins of the red-necked species, old and young, from the hills of the 

 Upper Brown River in S.Jj. New Guinea; and I also liave had in the flesli a specimen 

 of tme picticoUis, of which also there is a living specimen in Berlin. Now I have 

 hail alive during the last eight years over forty Cassowaries of eleven different forms, 

 and all ages from chicks to adults, and although the shades of yellow, orange, red, 

 and bine of the naked parts change much in intensity {i.e. varying from light to 

 dark), I have never found the colours to become transposed, red or yellow never 

 replacing blue. From this I feel sure that the red-necked form is distinct from the 

 true picticoUis, and have much pleasure in naming it after its discoverer. I am 

 further supported in this view by the fact that, as far as the incomplete records con- 

 cerning the three only known specimens can be trusted, Cusuarius picticoUis inhabits 

 the low swampy coasts of 8. and N.E. New Guinea, while luy new Casnnriiis loritic 

 inhabits the liilly country inland of British New (iuinea oidy. The second specimen 

 mentioned in the Catulaqiic of Birds as from S.E. New (Jninea is mentioned 

 erroneously, it not being in the collection under this name, but is probably a 

 C. bennetti. 



