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sowary of which I have recently obtained a young example for the 
Society in exchange from the Zoological Gardens at Rotterdam. It 
is easily distinguishable by the throat-caruncles being placed far 
apart on the sides of the throat, lighter colouring, &c. As the bird 
itself will shortly arrive in this country, I hope to be able to give full 
particulars concerning this new species at the next Meeting of the 
Society. 
IV. Dromzus. 
At a Meeting of this Society in May last*, Mr. Bartlett gave us 
some indications of the existence of a second species of Emeu in 
South Australia, and proposed to call it Dromeus irroratus. have 
lately had the pleasure of examining two specimens of this Emeu in 
Holland. One of these, now in the Gardens of the Zoological Society 
of Amsterdam, was brought from Albany in Western Australia, and 
thus renders it probable that the Spotted Emeu is the western repre- 
sentative of the D. Nove Hollandie. The second, now in the Zoo- 
logical Gardens at Rotterdam, I have obtained by exchange for this 
Society ; and as we may hope to see it in our own Gardens in a few 
days alongside the Eastern species, I reserve further notice of it 
until I have had a more satisfactory opportunity for its examination. 
It thus appears that there are some grounds for supposing that 
the species of Struthionide now in existence may amount to not less 
than fourteen or fifteen in number. 
On THE BLack-SHOULDERED Pracock or LatrHam (Pavo 
NIGRIPENNIS). By P. L. ScuatTer. 
The species of the genus Pavo generally recognized by naturalists 
since the time of Linnzus have been two in number—the Common 
Peacock (Pavo cristatus), and the Javanese or Green Peacock (Pavo 
muticus). My present object is to call the attention of the Society 
to what seems to be a third distinct species, in some respects inter- 
mediate between these two, and which, though long since introduced 
into Europe and often bred in our aviaries, appears in some myste- 
rious manner to have almost escaped the notice of naturalists, and 
to have been left unprovided with a specific name up to this time. 
The bird I allude to is the Black-shouldered Peacock of Latham’s 
‘General History’ (vol. viii. p.114), where its differences from the true 
Pavo cristatus are accurately pointed out. They are, indeed, very 
obvious on comparison of either sex of these two birds, as may be 
seen by any one who will take the trouble to inspect the fine series 
of Pea-fowl belonging to C. Clifton, Esq., now under the Society’s 
care in the Regent’s Park Gardens. 
In the Black-shouldered Peacock of Latham (a term which I pro- 
pose to Latinize into Pavo nigripennis), the metallic green of the 
back, which forms the centre of the train, when expanded, is of a 
more golden hue than in P. cristatus, which it otherwise most gene- 
* See Annals for April 1860, p. 333. 
