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send you some of the birds as soon as I can procure them, and also 
some nests and eggs, if pipes and tobacco can induce the natives to 
bring me some. The Kagus are rather plentiful here, on the side of 
the ‘Boh’? Mountains, and the natives catch them to eat. Their 
way of doing this is by making a slipknot on a strong string; and 
having discovered a place frequented by these birds, they fasten the 
string in such a way that the birds when running along pass their 
heads or legs through the noose and are thereby captured. There 
are two kinds of Kagus, one very different from the other. The 
largest Kagu you last received from Dr. Segol is a female of the 
«* Bush-Kagu,”’ and, as you have remarked, much handsomer than 
its fierce friend the smaller Kagu, which is the one with the dark 
stripes on the wings and tail (and generally of darker plumage). 
This is the ‘‘ Grass-Kagu.”’ ‘These two kinds of Kagu do not asso- 
ciate together on good terms; and during the time I had them they 
were always fighting one with the other, the ‘‘ Grass-Kagu”’ invari- 
ably getting the worst of the battle. 
*«« J will endeavour to procure a male and female of each species, 
and send them to you as soon as I can.’ 
«This fighting-propensity may in some degree account for the 
death of the little pugnacious Grass-Kagu soon after its arrival. It 
was found in a miserable half-starved condition when dissected; whilst 
the larger, elegant, and more peaceful ‘ Bush-Kagu’ was in fine plu- 
mage, plump, and altogether in a healthy state, which continues to 
the present day. 
**T have since written to Mr. F. Joubert, requesting him to send 
meas soonas possible a pair of skins of each species, male and female, 
properly labelled, and living specimens in pairs, as soon after as they 
can be procured, when I will transmit them to you immediately, so 
as to decide this interesting doubt on the subject of the existence of 
two species of this singular bird.” 
Description oF A New Species or Fiexiste Cora BE- 
LONGING TO THE GENUS JUNCELLA, OBTAINED AT MADEIRA. 
By James YATE JoHunson, Corr. Mem. Z.S. 
Fam. GORGONIDA. 
Sect. GoRGONELLACEA, Val. 
JUNCELLA FLAGELLUM, Sp. nov. 
Simple, elongated, slender, flexible, slightly twisted on its own 
axis, and tapering upwards. Bark calcareous, white, smooth, and 
impuncturate, enveloping a hard grey axis, which has a somewhat 
polished surface marked with straight strie. This axis is so highly 
charged with carbonate of lime that it effervesces in muriatic acid. 
The coral is quadrangular in section, and has on each of the two 
narrower sides two series of closely set papille, having the eight 
lobed orifices of polype-cells at their apices. These papillee are ob- 
pyriform or ovate ; and in dried specimens they are turned upwards 
