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mediately to the south. At Momi he bought a small living 

 Cassowary, apparently of a new species, distinguishable by 

 ha^'ing a small median as well as two lateral throat-wattles, 

 which he proposes to call C. tricarunculatus* from this 

 feature. It is not true, he observes, that, as Schlegel has 

 stated, each Cassowary is limited to a certain district. At 

 Dorey two species are certainly met with, of both of which 

 he has obtained specimens. At Ansus, a port in the island 

 of Jobi to which Beccari proceeded from Warbusi, are like- 

 wise probably two species f- In Jobi, Beccari also obtained 

 a series of specimens of Paradisea papuana, slightly differing 

 from those of the mainland of New Guinea, and examples of 

 Diphyllodes speciosa, distinguished by their longer bills and 

 the more brilliant yellow of the wings. These latter are, no 

 doubt, referable to Mr. Gould's D. chrysoptera, spoken of 

 below, of which therefore Jobi is the true patria. From Jobi 

 Beccari sailed northwards to Kordo or Korido, and the ad- 

 joining islet of Sowek, thence westwards to Mafor, where a 

 fine series of Tanysiptera car o lime was obtained, and from 

 Mafor back to Dorey. From Dorey he made an excursion 

 into the Arfak Mountains, where he spent a month, first at a 

 station of about 5000 feet altitude, and then at another of 

 about 3500 feet, rather lower than the place inhabited by 

 D'Albertis. Beccari maintains that neither Rosenberg nor 

 Meyer ever penetrated into these mountains. Rosenberg, he 

 declares, never got further than the home of Hr. Waelders, 

 a missionary at Andai, about a kilometre distant from the 

 coast, although he proudly labelled his birds (as may be seen 

 by reference to SchlegeFs Catalogues), ^''Interior of the 

 northern peninsula of New Guinea." Of Dr. Meyer, Beccari 

 tells the same tale; Andai was likewise his furthest point 

 visited personally. After D'Albertis and Beccari had left 



* Ann. Mus. di St. Nat. di Geneva, vii. p. 717. 



t One of these Dr. Salvador! describes as new, in a footnote, from a 

 coloured sketch of Beccari's, under the name Casuarius occipitalis (op. s. c. 

 p. 17). The other he supposes to be my C. westermanni. But is Dr. 

 Salvador! sure that his C. occijntalis does not = my C. westermanni? 

 —P. L. S. 



