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of either the purple patch below the ear, or of the violet on 

 the lower neck. C. westermanni was said to have come 

 from the mainland of New Guinea^ and as no pictorial or 

 even written record exists of the colours of the naked parts 

 of the head and neck, when the bird, as stated, was com- 

 pletely adult in 1874, I consider that the name can only 

 be considered as a doubtful synonym of C. p. papuanus. 

 I have therefore much pleasure in naming the Jobi Island 

 Mooruk 



" Casuarius papuanus goodfellowi, subsp. n." 



Messrs. Rothschild and Hartert described a new species 

 of Goshawk from New Guinea, and made the following 

 remarks : — 



"In 1875 Count Salvadori and D'Albertis described a 

 new genus and species of Goshawk from British New Guinea 

 which they named Megatriorchis dorice. In 1886 Sharpe 

 placed the very remarkable Megatriorchis doria in the genus 

 Erythrotriorchis, on the strength of a bird which he wrongly 

 believed to be an adult M. dorice. The bird which led him 

 to this erroneous conclusion was a specimen collected by 

 Goldie in the Astrolabe Mountains. It is certainly quite 

 distinct from M. dorim, having a very differently shaped 

 wing, in which the distance from the end of the secondaries 

 to the tip of the wing is much greater than the length of 

 the tarsus (about 95 mm.), while in M. dories it is consider- 

 ably less (30-45 mm) ; moreover, the type and other 

 specimens in the Triug and British Museums of M. dories 

 are not young but adult. The specimen of the new Hawk 

 collected by Goldie, and erroneously figured by Sharpe 

 (Gould's 'Birds of New Guinea,' i. pL 2) as the adult 

 M. dorice, and one which we bought from Mr. H. C. Pratt, 

 who collected it at an elevation of 3000 feet in the Babooni 

 district in the interior of British New Guinea, in September 

 1903, are undoubtedly adult birds ; they cannot either be 

 included in the genus Erythriorchis, which is characterised 

 by having much longer wings, but are, in our opinion, true 



