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described fi'om living specimens at Tring, " Habitat un- 

 known." Even if " Port Moresby " itself should not be the 

 exact locality where this individual was shot, we may infer 

 that it was obtained not far off. The future will give us the 

 more exact information necessary. 



(3) Three specimens of C. bennetti Gould (/. c. p. 145, 

 pi. xxxix.) from New Britain in our collection do not 

 agree as to the shape of the casque with Mr. Rothschild's 

 plate, nor with his description of the casque of C. bennetti 

 maculatus Rothsch. (/. c. p. 14-8, habitat unknown). These 

 three specimens are from the Valley of Warangoi, in the 

 Gazelle Peninsula — that is, to the south of Herbertshohe, 

 round Cape Wuatta, about where on the maps "Putput 

 Harbour" is indicated. They agree well among themselves. 

 I suppose that Mr. Rothschild's representation of the casque 

 of this species (pi. xxxix.) does not exhibit all the phases, 

 as it appears very improbable that the specimens before 

 me can belong to another subspecies, the more so as the 

 casque of a skeleton in the Museum, prepared from an example 

 received from a zoological garden, also agrees with the three 

 above-mentioned birds. 



(4) There is in the Dresden Museum, recently procured, 

 a chick from Sattelberg, in the north of Huon Gulf, which 

 may belong to C. uniappendiculatas aurantiacus Rothsch. 

 (/. c. p. 136, pi. xxxii.), or to C. picticollis Jiecki Rothsch. 

 {I. c. p. 144, pi. xxxvii.), both known at present only from 

 specimens in the Berlin Zoological Garden, with the habitat 

 " German New Guinea." The chick has not yet been 

 described, but I abstain from doing this because these pulti 

 cannot be discriminated by mere description. It might 

 possibly belong to some other species. 



(5) Together with a specimen of Casuariiis loria Rothsch. 

 (/. c. p. 142, pi. xxxviii.), from the same locality and the 

 same collector as Mr. Rothschild's example, the Dresden 

 Museum has quite recently received a chick and an &^^ of 

 that species. Though, as already remarked, it is of not much 

 use to describe a chick of any form of Casuarius , on account 

 of the great general resemblance, I may mention that ours 



