1873.] LORD WALDEN ON PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 519 



graph of the egg of Flinders's Cuckoo (Eudynamysjlindersi), dropped 

 by a bird shot by Mr. Masters, Subcurator of the Australian 

 Museum. The latter was of a uniform white. These were seut for 

 exhibition by Dr. G. Bennett, F.Z.S., of Sydney, N.S.W. 



2. A series of photographs of various novelties lately added to the 

 Australian Museum, Sydney, transmitted to the Society by Mr. G. 

 Krefft, C.M.Z.S. Amongst these were figures of a supposed new 

 venomous Snake from the Northern Territory, discovered by Mr. T. 

 G. Waterhouse, of Adelaide, and supposed to form the type of a new 

 genus ; also of a new species of Ghelodina from the Burnett River, 

 Queensland. 



3. The skin of the adult Vasuarius bicarunculatus figured P. Z. S. 

 1872, p. 495, pi. xxvi., which had died April 1, 1873, exhibited by 

 the Secretary, who, in reference to some previous remarks on the 

 distribution of the Cassowaries, read the following extract from a 

 letter addressed to him by Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., of Sydney : — 



"I observe, in the Society's 'Proceedings' for 1872, p. 150,' it is 

 mentioned that the habitat of the Mooruk {Casuarius bennetti) is 

 the Solomon Islands as well as New Britain. This must evidently 

 be an error, and appears to be founded on a specimen of that bird at 

 Auckland, which was supposed (certainly erroneously) to have been 

 brought from the Solomon Islands. 



** Now I have never heard from any of the traders to the islands 

 that the Mooruk had ever been found at any other island than that 

 of New Britain ; and if a Cassowary had been found at the Solomon 

 Islands it would probably be of a new species. 



" When at Brisbane, I met Captain Ferguson, of the • Captain 

 Cook,' who had visited the Solomon Islands, New Britain, and New 

 Ireland, and had obtained two living Mooruks, which died on the 

 passage, and also a number of eggs ; but he told me he had obtained 

 them at New Britain. I recollect a Mooruk was sent to Sir George 

 Grey from Sydney ; and very probably the one alluded to is the 

 identical bird." 



Mr. Sclater added that he had no doubt that Dr. Bennett was 

 correct, and that the Solomon Islands should be expunged from the 

 habitat of Casuarius bennetti, as given I. s. c. 



4. A series of skins and skulls of the new Muntjac from Ningpo, 

 China, lately described by Mr. Swinhoe as Cervulus sclateri (P. Z. S. 

 1872, p. 813). 



These embraced a skin and skull of an adult male from Ningpo, 

 killed in November 1872, a flat skin with skull of another male, 

 killed at Kinkiang in January 1873, and a skin and skull of a young 

 female, killed at Ningpo in November 1872. 



These were sent for exhibition by Mr. Swinhoe. 



Lord Walden read a memoir on the Birds of the Philippine 

 archipelago, commencing with the following preliminary remarks: — 



"In the month of December 1871 and the first three months of 

 the following year some of the principal islands of the Philippine 

 archipelago were visited by Dr. A. Bernhard Meyer, the well- 



