78 Recent Ornithological Publications. 



Philippiue Islands, also sent by Mr. Swinhoe for examination, 

 contained several novelties, amongst which was a new form of 

 Graucaline bird, proposed to be called Pseudolalage melanictera. 

 We agree with Mr. Blyth that " it is much to be regretted that 

 Mr. Cuming's valuable collection of Philippine birds was per- 

 mitted to be dispersed without any list having been published of 

 them.'" It is to be wished that Mr. Cassin would give to the 

 public the catalogue of Philippine birds he was engaged upon 

 some time since, founded upon the rich series in the Philadel- 

 phian Academy's collection. This would supply the desideratum, 

 and afford us better opportunity than we now have of obtaining 

 some general notions as to the character of the Avifauna of this 

 group of islands. 



Mr. Blyth's Report in No. 2 (p. 185) contains the remarks 

 made on exhibiting to the meeting the mounted skin of the new 

 Casuarius uni-appendiculatus *. The bird had died in the Babu 

 Rajendra Mullik's menagerie, when probably about half-grown. 

 Mr. Blyth says, " It entirely resembles Casuarius galeatus of the 

 same age in general structure ; but the colouring of the plumage 

 is that of the small young of C. galeatus, or with considerably less 

 admixture of black than is seen in an ordinary Cassowary of the 

 same size ; the only marked distinction consisting in the very 

 different arrangement and predominating yellow of the bright 

 colours of the neck, and in the single small yellow caruncle in 

 front of the neck, in place of the two larger and bright- red ca- 

 runcles of the common species. Again, the nude skin of the 

 lower part of the neck is smooth or comparatively tense, and 

 not tumous and wrinkled as in the other. I remark, also, 

 in the stuffed specimen, along the medial third of the back a 

 nude line about | in. broad, parting the feathers which flow on 

 either side. Unfortunately the body was thrown away, not even 

 the sex having been ascertained; but the sexes in this genus 

 hardly differ in appearance; nor is the bird so skilfully set up 

 as could be wished. The habitat of this species of Cassowary 

 remains to be ascertained." 



The first section of the sixth and concluding part of the fourth 

 * Cf. ' Ibis,' 1860, p. 307. 



