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NESTS AND EGGS OE AUSTRALIAN BIRDS. 



Melbourne four yoxing Cassowaries (presumably about three or four 

 months old) that were captured in tJio Johnston district of Noi-thera 

 Qui ensland. Down the back was a broad, dark stripe, succeeded by 

 two others on either side, then by smaller ones (two or three) more or 

 less indistinct or broken as they approached the stomach, the interstices 

 and stomach being dirty-brown or yellowish-white ; wattles on face and 

 neck, white, and feet also whitish ; bill also whitish, but upper mandible 

 bluish-black, with gi'eeuish tinge before the eyes. Eyes steel blue, trans- 

 fomiing intermittently in the daylight into a gi'eenish shade. 



