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some new species of the genu's Delias, some Geometridae and Noctuidae have been 

 described. 



Our thanks are dne to Dr. Gestro of Genoa and Dr. van Oort of Leiden for 

 information abont types and loan of specimens for comparison. 



Neither the " Eilanden-rivier " (Islands River) nor Mount Goliath is fonnd in 

 atlases. The first mention of the discovery of that mountain appears to be in 

 the Tijdschrift can het Konhiglijk Sederlandsch Aardrijksliiinditj Geiiootsckap^ 

 xxviii. (1911), No. 1, pp. 124 and 321. The Goliath lies thus somewhat between 

 the Wilhelmina-top (4700 m.) and the Jnliana-top (4.500 m.) : cf. map No. XXI. in. 

 the above-named Dntch periodical, xxvii. (1910). A general good map of Dutch 

 New Gninea is also map XVII. in vol. xxv. (1908) of the same jonrnal. The 

 Eilanden River is sonth of the Noord — or Lorentz — River, between the oth and (Uh 

 degree of southern latitude. For correct maps of the Eilanden River and Goliath 

 Mountain see recent volumes of the Tijdschr. K. Nederl. Aardr. Genootschap. 



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1. Casuarius casuarius sclaterii SalvaJ. 



Casiiarius sclaterii Salvador!, Ann. Mus. Civ. (ieuoiia xii. 1878. p. 422 ; van Oort, Noi-a Guinea ix^ 

 Zool., livr. 1. p. 51. 



The skull of an adult bird was sent from the Setekwa River. 

 ^ 2. Casuarius claudii Ogilvie-Grant. 



Bull. B. 0. Club xxix. p. 25 (Swaka River, 4000-5000 ft.). 



The head of an adult bird from the Snow Mountains, November I, 1910. 



3. Talegallus cuvieri Less. (? subspecies). 



Talegallm cuvieri Lesson, Voy. CoquiUe, Zool., Atlas, pi. 38 (1826 — Dorey). 



(? ad. ; Snow Mountains, 5. viii. 1910. (No. 4.581, A. S. Meek Coll.) 

 " Feet orange yellow ; bill brown and yellow." 



Two young in difterent stages. Snow Mountains. (Nos. 4737, 4745.) 

 This specimen agrees entirely with our examples from North- Western New 

 Guinea, except that it is larger. 



■^ 4. Talegallus fuscirostris Salvad. 



Taf^allus fmciroxtria Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova ix. pp. 332. 334 (1877 — S. New Guinea and 



Aru Islands). 

 Tahgalliia cuvieri fmcirnslris, Nor. Zool. 1901. p. 139 ; van Oort, Nora Guinea ix. i. p. 57. 



S ? ; Upper Setekwa River, 15. viii., Ki. xi. 1910. (Nos. 4517, 5005, A. S. Meek 

 Coll.) 



"Iris dark brown ; bill vandyke brown (and black) ; feet chrome yellow (and 

 lemon yellow)." 



These birds differ from 7'. cuvieri in having blackish bills, and the feathers do 

 not reach to the tibit»-tarsal joint, but leave over a centimetre bare. Our treatment 

 of T. cuvieri imA fuscirnistris as subspecies {Noc. Zool. 1901, p. 139) is j)erhaps not 

 correct, in view of their occurrence close together and perhaps side by side. 



