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Ohs. This species is nearly allied to C hifasciatus^ Ti-bicli 

 it resembles in size, but differs in having the bastard primary 

 smaller and more pointed : in this character it resembles 

 C. laurlquensls. 



The most marked specific characters of C. shelleyi are 

 the sealing-wax red pectoral band, which is similar to that 

 of C. eryihroctj-ca, and tlie blackish-brown breast, which 

 resembles that of C. bonvkri; the golden gloss on the 

 metallic upper parts is also far less than iu C mariquensis.' 

 The position of this uew species ajjpears to be intermediate 

 between C. erythrocerca and C. mariqueni'is. 



]Mr. Ogilvie Guaxt exhibited an examjjle of a new species 

 of Rough-winged Swallow collected by ]\Ir. AV. Bla^mey 

 Percival at Ruo, British Central Africa. 7\lr. Grant pro- 

 posed to call it : — 



PSALIDOPROCNE PERCIVALIj Sp. n. 



Allied to P. antinori, Salvad,, from Shoa, but with the 

 general colour of the plumage black glossed with dark green, 

 instead of sooty black with a dull bronze gloss. Total length 

 5"25 inches, wiug i'l, tail 3'-4, tarsus O'SS, 



The Hon. "Walter Rothschild exhibited the original 

 drawings for the plates in his forthcoming ''Monograph of 

 the Genus Cusaarius " (to be published in the Zoological 

 Society's 'Transactions^), and also the type of Casuariusloria, 

 Rothsch., and a young bird of the same species. He 

 acknowledged 8 distinct species of Casiiarius, and, counting 

 all the local races or subspecies, recognized eighteen separable 

 forms, as follows : — 



CasuariiLS cusuarius. Ceram. 



C. casKarius Leccarii. Vokan I., Aru Group. 



C. casuarius sakudorii. Arfak, ]S\AY. New Guinea. 



C casuarius sdateri. Southern New Guinea, from Macluer 



Inlet to Samarai. 

 C. casuarius australis. Queensland, 



C, casuarius violicollis. Probably Trangan I., Aru Group. 

 C, casuarius iniensus. Hab. iucert. 



