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inhabitant of New Britain, to the east of New Guinea, and is easily 
distinguishable from its congeners by its blue throat and back of 
the neck. 
Omitting for the moment the doubtful C. papuanus, it will be 
thus seen that we have tolerably certain indications of the districts 
in which the other eight cassowaries are found. It would be very 
desirable, however, to get further information concerning them, 
and also to ascertain what is the cassowary of Jobie, and whether 
the other islands adjacent to New Britain possess, as is probable, 
indigenous species of this group. 
Zoology of the Thames Valley.—A zoological collection of remarkable 
interest, more especially to Londoners, has been added during the present 
year to the British Museum. It consists of the Thames Valley series of 
remains of British elephants, rhinoceri, deer, ox, &c., which have been 
discovered in the Ilford Marshes, near Stratford, during the last thirty 
years, and has hitherto formed the unique private collection of Sir Antonio 
Brady, of Stratford-le-Point. The nature and value of this collection, as now 
exhibited at the British Museum, will appear from the following facts :—It 
contains remains of no less than one hundred elephants, all of which have 
been obtained from Ilford. These are referable to two species, viz., the 
mammoth (Elephas primigenius) and a more southern form (E. antiquus). 
The skeletons of each species are represented by many fine examples, and 
the collection of teeth and jaws represents elephants of every age and size, 
from the sucking calf, with milk molars, to the patriarch of the herd, whose 
last molars are so worn that they must have become useless for grinding 
his food. One characteristic of the Ilford elephant is the number of the plates 
in the last molar tooth, which has never been found to exceed nineteen or 
twenty, as against the twenty-four and sometimes twenty-eight in other 
species. The largest tooth is ten inches in length. The rhinoceri of the 
Thames Valley are represented by eighty-six remains, of three species, 
distinguished by the character or the absence of the bony nasal septum— 
viz., Rhinoceros megarhinus, R. leptorhinus and R. tichorhinus. The 
British lion, which recent Geology shows to have been no myth, is repre- 
sented by a lower jaw and a phalanx of the left fore foot. The Brady 
collection also includes the Thames Valley hippopotamus, which is found 
at Grays, as well as at Ilford. ‘The ruminants, such as the stag, bison 
and ox, constitute fully one half the collection, numbering more than five 
hundred specimens. They include seven specimens of the great Irish elk 
(Megaceros hibernicus) and fifty of the red deer.—Times. 
