EAKI.V IIISI(i|;Y 111' THE ArSTKAMAN CASSdWAfiY NORTH. 41 



vou Mueller, of Melbourne, to a newspaper, "The Austra- 

 lasian," of tlie loth Decenibei', 1866, •"[■ivinf;;' further particulars 

 as to the Cassowary of Austialia: — "For the intelligence of 

 the existence of an Austialian true Cassowary, and for the 

 means of defining' j)reliniinarily its specific charactei's, 1 am 

 indebted to (i. Randall Johnson, Ksq. who in Se[)teniber last, 

 while on a visit to Rocking-lmni Hay, shot in the Gowrie 

 Creek scrub, the t>nly specimen of this I'emarkable bird as 3'et 

 obtained, and whose name T wish it should bear ; and I can- 

 not do better than to give in the first instance publicity to the 

 lucid remarks transmitted to me by that gentleman." Here 

 follows Mr. Johnson's, not Dr. Mueller's, desci'iption of the 

 bird, and for which Mueller has in so many instances been 

 placed as the authority t\)r the description of ('(D^iinriiis 

 jnJnisdiii, instead of only suggesting a specific name to Mr. 

 Johnson's description. " In referring to this letter Mr. Sclater 

 called attention to the communication he had made on the 

 same subject to tlie meeting on December 13th, 1866^ and 

 remarked that the bird was, no doubt, the Cdsuarutf; anstraJif!, 

 Gould." 



At the meeting of the Zoological Society held on the 9th 

 May of the same year* " A letter was read from Dr. G. 

 Bennett, F.Z.S. (Trustee of the Australian Museum) dated 

 2l6t February, and addressed to the Secretary, in which 

 details were given respecting the re-discovery of Casuariuf; 

 australis in Queensland, and photographs were enclosed of a 

 specimen of this bird recently received by the Sydney 

 Museum. Dr. Bennett's communication enclosed a copy of 

 the following letter, addressed to tlie Editor of the ' Sydney 

 (Morning) Herald ' by Mr. W. Carron, one of the three sur- 

 vivors of Kennedy's Expedition, during which the original 

 example of Caaaarlus anstraJis had been procured : — 



" Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 

 Sth February, 1867. 



"Sir — In the 'Herald' of to-day is a letter from Mr. G. 

 Kreift of the Sydney Museum, giving the description of a 

 Cassowary lately obtained by Mr. G. Randall Johnson at 

 Rockingham Bay, and also alluding to one shot by Mr. Thomas 



» Sclater— Proc. Zool. Soc, 1866, p. 557. 

 ■• Bennett— Proc. Zool. Soc, 1867, p. 473. 



