Vol. VI 

 1907 



1 Legge, The Emus of Tasmania and King Island. IIO 



Femur. 



(None 

 available) 



In a notice of the subject written for the Royal Society, and 

 read by the secretary at the meeting of 15th August, the writer 

 proposed the name of DroiiicBus bassi for the King Island 

 species, but, as this communication will not appear in print till 

 the publication of the Journal, he submits the title now for this 

 note in The Emu. 



It is most desirable that some search should be instituted for 

 the bones of our Tasmanian species. It affected principally 

 remote hill marshes and upland plains and also open country on 

 littoral of the north and east coasts. In the writer's opinion the 

 best locality to prospect for the remains would be Kearney's 

 Bogs, already mentioned. It can either be approached via 

 Avoca, to which place one travels by the Fingal railway, or 

 (equally well) by the Lake Leake road from Campbelltown to the 

 great reservoir, some 12 or 15 miles from the township. The 

 courteous proprietor of the Benham estate, Avoca, of which the 

 Bogs are the summer sheep run, would no doubt be pleased to 

 allow members of the Union to search them for traces of the 

 extinct Emu, which, like so many interesting flightless forms of 

 the great class Aves, has passed out of existence. 



As the writer, during this opening meeting of our annual 

 Congress, has^ learnt that Professor Baldwin Spencer, C.M.G., 

 has just described the King Island Emu* from bones lent him 

 by our Museum trustees, it is only right to state that this is 

 the first indication conveyed to him of the Professor having 

 worked out tfie subject. The name, therefore, suggested in the 

 earlier communication, addressed to the Royal Society, becomes 

 a synonym of the title bestowed on the bird by Professor 

 Spencer. 



Description of a New Bird-of-Paradise. 



By D. Le Souef, C.M.Z.S., Melbourne. 

 Paradisornis rudolphi Jinnti, sub-species nova. 

 The head, neck, and upper portion of back velvety black, with a 

 greenish-coppery sheen on throat, sides of head and forehead ; 

 on back of head cherry-brown sheen ; a white line above and 

 below the eye of short white feathers, and a small bare patch 



* See Vict. Naturalist, vol. xxiii., p. 139. 



