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69. Salvadori on new Sjjecies of Papuan Birds. 



[Nuove specie di Colombi dei generi Megaloprepia, Reich., e Macro- 

 lyyiiui, Sw. Ann. Mus. Genov. xii. p. 426.] 



Megaloprepia poliura, from Jobi and Southern New Guinea, 

 a " conspecies " of M. magnifica, and Macroijygicse buruensis 

 and maforensis, from the islands indicated by their names, 

 standing in similar relationship to M. amboinensis, are here 

 described. Tables of the representative forms o£ both genera 

 are given, 



70, Salvadori on certain Cassowaries. 



[lutorno ad alcune specie di Casoari poco note, Ann. Mus. Genov. xii. 

 p. 419.] 



Of three Cassowaries^ skins received in the beginning of this 

 year from Hr. Bruijuj ]V[. Laglaize sold one (the most adult), 

 which came from Wandammen, to the British IMuseum^ the 

 second, from Warbusi, to the Jardin des Plantes, and the third 

 (not adult, and without exact locality) to Count E. Turati, of 

 IVIilan. To the first of these the name of Casuarius altijugus 

 was given by Sclater at a Meeting of the Zoological Society of 

 London on 19th of Feb., 1878"^, but was afterwards withdrawn 

 in favour of the name salvadorii-f, under which, on the 23rd 

 February, M. Oustalet described the second J. The third spe- 

 cimen turns out to be C. tricarunculatus of Beccari, founded 

 upon a living example from Warbusi, which Beccari left at 

 Ternate in 1875 under Hr. Bruijn's care, Dr, Salvadori now 

 doubts whether Cassowary No. 2, from Warbusi, is really iden- 

 tical with No, 1 from Wandammen, i. e. whether C. altijugus 

 really = C. salvadorii, i. e. if the localities are rightly assigned. 



Dr. Salvadori has given the provisional name C. sclateri to 

 C. beccarii of Sclater in P. Z. S. 1875, p. 527, pi. 58, from 

 Southern New Guinea, as he thinks it probably different 

 from C. beccarii (verus) of the Aru Islands. Sclater has 

 remarked (P. Z. S. 1878, p. 213) that this specimen, now in 

 the British Museum, can hardly be distinguished from Casso- 

 wary No. 1 of the preceding list, i. e. from C. altijugus. 



* See ' Nature,' vol. xvii. p. 375. 



t See P. Z. S, 1878, p. 212. 



X Bull. Ass. So. de France, vol. xxi. p. 349. 



