194 Dr. A. B. IMeyer on the 



blue. Axis 1 iuch 5 Hues, diam. 14 Hues. This bird is 

 very coiumou liereabouts. 



II. PoLiospizA GULARis. (Streakj-beaded Seed-eater.) 

 Ou October 25tb, 1900, I found a nest of this species, 

 •which is fairly plentiful here, built in a plum-tree in our 

 garden, about 4 feet above the ground. It was cup-shaped, 

 and constructed of the stems of a very common plant, 

 and lined with the flaxen tops of flowering grasses. It 

 contained three eggs of a very light bluish white, sprinkled 

 with dark and purplish-brown dots, chiefly at the larger end. 

 Axis nearly 13| lines, diam. 9^ lines. 



Modderfontein, 



December 16th, 1900. 



XVIII. — Notes on the Cassowaries of the Dresden Museum. 

 By Dr. A. B. Meyer. 



Mr. Rothschild's valuable monograph of the genus Casuarius 

 (Tr. Z. S. XV. pp. 109-148, pis. xxii.-xli., 1900) has enabled 

 me to revise the determination of the specimens in the 

 Dresden Museum, and I beg leave to offer a few remarks 

 upon them. 



(1) The Museum received, in the year 1899, a specimen 

 shot on the hills behind Bongu, at the back of Constantin- 

 hafen, in Astrolabe Bay, German New Guinea, that is, on the 

 northern slopes of the Finisterre Mountains. This specimen 

 proves to belong to C. pidicollis hecki Rothsch. (/. c. p. 144, 

 pi. xxxvii.), known till now only from an example living in 

 the Zoological Garden of Berlin, with the habitat ''German 

 New Guinea." The Dresden specimen gives the first exact 

 locality for this species within a larger range, which we shall 

 ascertain correctly later. 



(2) In the year 1883 the Museum procured an example 

 from " Port Moresby,'^ British New Guinea, designated as 

 C. beccarii Scl. (or C sclateri Salv.). This now proves to 

 be C. casuarius intensus Rothsch. (/. c. p. 121, pi. xxvii.). 



