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now known to be confined to Vokau Island, in the Am 

 group, while C. c. sclateri was found all over the south and 

 south-east of New Guinea, The differences of the two 

 forms had been given in 'Novitates Zoologicae,' vol. vi. no. 1, 

 p. 75, and would be further detailed iu a 'Monograph of 

 the Cassowaries,' shortly to be published. 



Mr. Walter Rothschild also exhibited a series of skins 

 o£ the P. cinctus group of the genus Ptilinopus, all the 

 species being shown excepting the newly-described P. alli- 

 gator, Collett, of which Mr. Rothschild exhibited a coloured 

 figure. He recognized the following forms : — 



P. cinctus. Hah. Timor. 



P. albocinctiis. Hab. Lombok, Surabawa. 



P. albocinctus baliensis. Hah. Bali. 



P. everetti. Hah. Alor, Pantar. 



P. lettiensis. Hab. Letti, Dammar, and Babber. 



A fine specimen of the wonderful P. dohertyi was also 

 brought for exhibition by Mr. Rothschild. 



Mr. Rothschild further exhibited several skins oi Lopho- 

 phorus refiilgen.'i, and added the following remarks : — 



" In 1893 (Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. xviii. p. 19) Dr. Oustalet 

 described two Monaul Pheasants as local forms of ' Lopho- 

 phorus impeyamis ' under the names L. impeyanus var. 

 mantoui and L. impeyanus var. obscurus, the former having 

 the copper-coloured neck and head replaced by bright 

 blue, the other having all the metallic parts replaced by 

 deep greenish black. I was at first inclined to consider 

 L. impeyanus var. mantoui a good species ; for I procured 

 three skins, all exactly alike. My suspicions were first 

 aroused by finding in a lot of 3000 ordinary Monaul skins 

 one specimen of L. impeyanus with a dull bronze-coloured 

 neck, one L. impeyanus mantoui, and two semi- albino birds. 

 My doubts as to these forms were settled on receiving a black 

 Monaul killed by an English sportsman out of a flock of four, 

 together with a cock and three hens of the ordinary Monaul. 

 Mr. Grant, in vol. xxii. of the ' Catalogue of Birds,' says 

 that Lophopliorus refulgens, Teram., is the correct name for 



