1874.] DR. E. GRUBE ON NEW ANNULATA. 325 



The following extracts were read from a letter addressed to the 

 Secretary by Mr. E. P. Ramsay, C.M.Z.S., dated Cardwell, Queens- 

 land, April 2, 1874:— 



" I find the Cassowary (Casuarius australis) by no means rare 

 here, and have secured a fine bird alive for the Society, which I 

 propose sending to you the first chance I have. I hope to be able 

 to get another soon. I have also the egg ; it closely resembles that 

 of Bennett's Cassowary (G. bennetti), and is of about the same size. 

 The birds had only laid four eggs when the nest was found ; it was 

 placed in a dense scrub at the foot of climbing palms {Calamus). 



" I would have written before about the Cassowarv ; but it was in 

 a very wretched state when I got it, and so weak that it could not 

 stand. I was afraid it would die, and, remembering the fate of the 

 young Lyre-birds which I had some years ago, was somewhat 

 superstitious. At present, however, at any rate, the Cassowary is all 

 right, and takes good care that no one shall interfere with its domain. 

 I have had a yard built for it here ; it is very pugnacious, and kicks 

 and hisses violently at any strangers ; it is very fond of bathing. 

 This species (C. australis) swims well, and the birds have frequently 

 escaped me by swimming across the creeks. I find they are not 

 rare on Hinchenbrook Island, and to get there must swim across a 

 distance of two miles from the mainland. The specimen I have is 

 about 3 feet 6 inches in height, and can reach over 6 feet, and, by 

 jumping, 10 feet high. I have known one in the possession of 

 Subinspector Johnstone of the Police to jump out of its enclosure 

 over a fence more than 6 feet 6 inches high. This specimen was 

 only about 2 feet 6 inches in height and about half the size of my 

 bird, which is now just getting its helmet." 



Major Irby, F.Z.S., exhibited specimens of an apparently new 

 species of Raven, which he had lately obtained in the vicinity of 

 Tangier, Morocco, and which he was intending to describe under 

 the name of Corvus tingitanus. 



Prof. Owen, F.R.S., read the fifth of his series of memoirs on 

 the osteology of the Marsupialia. 



This paper will be printed entire in the Society's * Transactions.' 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Description es Annulatorum novorum mare Ceylonicum 

 habitantium ab honoratissimo Holdsvvorth collectoruni, 

 auctore Dr. Ed. Grtjbe. 



[Eeceived May 6, 1874.] 



Inter Annulata ab honoratissimo Holdsworth in mari Ceylonico 

 collecta, a me perlustrata, nonnulla erant mihi nondum cognita, 

 quorum descriptiones, quum de coloribus mensurisque animalium 



