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The Hon. Walter Kothschild exhibited a stuSed spe- 

 cimen of Casuarius casicarius sclateri, shot bv Herr Emil 

 Weiske on the Brown River^ S.E, New Guinea. 



This form had been originally described by Count Salvadori 

 from a specimen which died in the Zoological Gardens about 

 the year 1875. He had afterwards united the species with 

 Casuarius casuarius beccarii (Sclater) ; but the latter was 

 now known to be confined to Vokan Island, in the Aru 

 group, while C. c. sclateri was found all over the south and 

 south-east of New Guinea. The differences of the two 

 forms had been given in ^ Novitates Zoologicse/ vol. vi. no. 1, 

 p. 75, and would be further detailed iu the ' Monograph of 

 the Cassowaries/ shortly to be published. 



Mr. Walter Rothschild also exhibited a series of skins 

 of the P. cinctus group of the genus Ptitinopus, all the 

 species being shown excepting the newly-described P. alli- 

 gator, Collett, of which Mr. Rothschild exhibited a coloured 

 figure. He recognized the following forms : — 



P. cinctus, Hab. Timor. 



P. albocinctus. Hab. Lombok, Sumbawa. 



P. albocinctus baliensis. Hah. Bali. 



P. everetti. Hab. Alor, Pantar. 



P. lettiensis. Hab. Letti, Dammar, and Babber. 



A fine specimen of the wonderful P. dohertyi was also 

 brought for exhibition by Mr. Rothschild. 



Mr. Rothschild further exhibited several skins of Lopho- 

 phorus refuJgens, and added the following remarks : — 



" In 1893 (Bull. Sec. Zooi. Fr. xviii. p. 19) Dr. Oustalet 

 described two ]Monaul Pheasants as local forms of '' Lopho- 

 phorus impeyaniis ' under the names of L. impeyanus var. 

 mantoui and L. impeyanus var. obscurus, the former having 

 the copper-coloured neck and head replaced by bright 

 blue, the other having all the metallic parts replaced by 

 deep greenish black. I was at first inclined to consider 

 L. impeyanus var. mantoui a good species ; for I procured 

 three skins, all exactly alike. ]My suspicions were first 

 aroused by hnding in a lot of 3000 ordinary Monaul skins 



