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cerulescens, S. aurantia, 8. lineola, and 8. hypoleuca) not previously 
exhibited. 
3. An albino of the Common Macaque (Macacus cynomolgus) or 
of the Philippine form of the species (M. philippinensis), brought 
from Samar, Philippines, and presented by Mr. J. Ross, April 23rd. 
We have now a pair of these albino Monkeys in the Menagerie. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on the skin of a chick of 
a Cassowary (supposed to be Casuarius picticollis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 
1875, p. 84, Plate xvii.) which had been transmitted to him for 
examination by Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., of Sydney. The bird 
had been obtained alive from the natives in Milne Bay, New Guinea, 
by Mr. Godfrey Goodman, Staff-Surgeon, R.N., when on the 
‘ Basilisk’ in 1873. It had died on board; and its skin had been 
preserved by Mr. Goodman. 
The bird was still in the first down-plumage, and was generally of 
a pale buffy brown with the head above rufescent. The back was 
dark with one median and on each side two lateral broad stripes of 
pale brown. These stripes ran regularly parallel down the whole 
length of the back. The whole length of the skin from the beak to 
the tail was 10°5 in., of the tarsus 2°9, and of the bill from the gape 
2:5; 
Mr. Sclater proposed to deposit this specimen, as requested by 
Mr. Goodman, in the British Museum. 
Prof. Newton exhibited two specimens of Ross’s Gull (Rhodostethia 
rossi) received from Greenland by the Royal Museum of Copenhagen. 
Professor Newton, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited tracings of 
some unpublished sketches of the Dodo and other extinct birds of 
Mauritius, remarking :— 
“In the summer of 1868 Mr. Hessells, an assistant in the Public 
Library of the University of Cambridge, informed me that, having 
lately been in Holland, he had there been shown the original manu- 
script of a journal kept during the voyage of Wolphart Harmanszoon 
to Mauritius in 1601-1602, which was embellished by drawings of 
the Dodo (Didus ineptus) and other birds. The text of the journal 
I was told had been published, but not so these sketches. I at once 
wrote to Professor Schlegel, acquainting him with the fact; and he 
replied that his attention had been already drawn to this very inter- 
esting volume, which, if I am not mistaken, belongs to a library at 
Utrecht. He further told me that among the birds represented were 
species which could be easily identified as Aphanapteryx broechi and 
Psittaeus mauritianus, and added that he was preparing a memoir 
on the subject. 
“IT have naturally been most anxious ever since to see these 
sketches or copies of them ; but expecting that Prof. Schlegel would 
shortly carry out his intention, I was careful not to interfere with his 
design, and contented myself with inserting a short notice of the fact 
in the ‘ Ibis ’for 1868 (pp. 503-504). I have, however, waited in 
