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hollandie are uniform blackish-grey from the base to the extre- 
mity, which is black with a broad subterminal band of rufous. 
On comparing the two living birds together, we find D. irroratus 
generally of a much more slender habit. The tarsi are longer 
and thinner, and the toes longer and much more slender. The 
tarsal scutes are smaller. The irides are of a pale hazel, instead of 
a reddish brown as in D. nove hollandia. 
The example of D. irroratus in the Gardens of the Zoological 
Society of Amsterdam was brought by a Dutch vessel from Albany, 
King George’s Sound. I have reason to believe that our specimen 
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is from the same locality. .As Mr. Bartlett’s original skin of D. 
irroratus was obtained in the interior of Southern Australia, the 
range of this Emeu must be supposed to extend over the western 
portion of Australia into the latter colony, where it probably inos- 
culates with D. nove hollandie*. 
With regard tothe Casuarius bicarunculatus, I am unable at pre- 
* Two additional specimens of the Spotted Emeu (both immature) have since 
been received by the Society from Swan River. In this stage of plumage the 
bird is decidedly darker than its near ally, D. nove hollandie. 
