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Count Salvadori in tlie "Catalogue of Birds in the Hritisli 

 Muspnnr"' in referring to CiirJopsifta iiiacleaijinnt deseribed by 

 Dr. K. P. Ramsay in the "Sydney Morning Hei'ald " re- 

 marks : — " According to tlie rule followed in the Zoological 

 Catalogues of the JJritisli Museum, right to pj'iority cannot be 

 claimed for specific names published in newspapers." In the 

 present instance, liowevei', Wall's name of Casuariutt ((iisfra1i.<, 

 was made good by (lonhl in his "Handbook to the Birds of 

 Australia," and that of ( '. jn/iiiKniu (a synonym of the former) 

 suggested by Mueller, properly described later on by Ki'eff't in 

 the "Proceedings of tlic Zoological Society." 



Dr. K. P. Ramsay, the fourth Curator, in addition to wi-iting 

 the most perfect life history of this species, was also the first to 

 make us acquainted with its eggs, and young and immature hi ids 

 in the " Pi'oceedings of the Zoological Society of London," in 

 1874-6. Read in conjunction with what has been put together 

 by Gould in his "Supplement" to the "Birds of Australia" in 

 1869 where Ca^nntn'tiH australis, is beautifully iigured from the 

 specimen sent by Mr. Scott to Dr. Sclater, little has subse- 

 quently been added to our store of knowledge. 



Finally, Carron's "Narrative of Kennedy's Kxpedition," 

 printed by Kemp & Fairfax, Lower George Street, Sydney, in 

 1849, within a year of Carron being placed, in an exhausted 

 state, on the "Ariel" and which left Weymouth Bay foi- Syd- 

 ney on Sunday, 31st December, 1848, but Kennedy's pa] ers, 

 after his death, were secreted by Jackey Jackey in a hollf)w 

 tree and were not recovered by the latter until the 11th or 

 12th May, 1849. Carron's pathetic story, has never had an 

 equal, in the annals of Australian exploration, for of the thirteen 

 persons who left Sydney on the 29th April, 1848, death at the 

 hands of the Care Yo'/k aboriginals, and disease, left only Car- 

 ron, Goddard and Jackey Jackey of the expedition to leturn 

 and tell the tale. 



Nearly seven yeais ago^*^ when writing on Gilbert, with the 

 kind permission of the Rev. W. T. Carr-Smith, I had the 

 privilege of tiguiing the muiul tablet erected to his memory 



3 Salvadori— Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., xx., 1S9I, p. 95. 

 1'^ North— Rec. Austr. Mus., vi., 1906, p. 128, pi. xwii. 



