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Casuarius jamrachi, n. sp. 



Entire head and neck crimson. Lores, sides of face, and 

 throat blue. Two separate pendent blue wattles on the throat 

 and a large pear-shaped blue caruncle on the lower fore-neck. 



This species is named after Mr. William Jamrach, who 

 procured the bird for me. 



Casuarius hagenbecki, n. sp. 



Head and neck yellow, lores black, orbital region green. 

 Two yellow wattles running down the sides of the throat from 

 the angle of the lower mandible, one round yellow caruncle 

 on the fore-neck. 



The species is named after Mr. Carl Hagenbeck, from whom 

 I obtained the bird. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant exhibited a pair of the Purple- 

 backed Paradise-Crow [Phonygama purpureo-violacea) , to- 

 gether with the body of the male bird in spirits, showing 

 the extraordinary convoluted subcutaneous trachea in its 

 natural position. These interesting specimens, together 

 with other birds from South-east New Guinea, had been 

 collected by Capt. P. R. Barton and presented by him to the 

 British Museum. It would be observed that the convoluted 

 trachea, which had not previously been examined in this 

 species, covered the entire pectoral muscles in the male, but 

 in the female (which had been examined by Captain Barton, 

 but not preserved) the trachea was normal and straight. 

 The note of this species was described as being prolonged, 

 bass, and guttural. In several other species of Phonygama 

 and in the allied genus Manucodia the trachea had been 

 already described and figured by Signor Pavesi, Dr. A. B. 

 Meyer, and other naturalists, and tracings of a number of 

 the illustrations given in their various works were handed 

 round for comparison. One of Signor Pavesi's figures of 

 P. keraudreni [cf. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. ix. p. 68, fig. 1 

 (1876)] had twelve folds counting along a transverse line 

 drawn through the centre of the coil, and closely resembled 

 the trachea of P. purpureo-violacea exhibited. It would 

 appear that the disposition and length of the trachea in indi- 

 viduals of the same species varied greatly. In all females and 



