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neck, the yellow naked portion is continued down to its base, the bor- 

 dering feathers more or less covering and concealing this lateral stripe of 

 unfeathered skin : on the hind-part of the neck the bare yellow skin 

 is not tumous and corrugated as in the common Cassowary, vvhere 

 also this part is bright red. The casque is about equally developed 

 at this age in the two species. The legs of the new species are 

 smaller, from which I doubt if it attains to quite so large a size as 

 the other. 



The known species of Casttaeius now range as follow : 



1. C. galeatus, Vieillot : O. emeu, Lafcham ; Struthio casuarinus, 

 L. Hab. N. Guinea. Eastern Moluccas. 



2. C. Bennettii, Gould (figured in P. Z. S. 1851, pl. 7). The 

 Mooriik, Hab. N. Ireland. 



3. C. attstralis, G-ould. Hab. York península, N. E. Australia. 



4. C. unappendictjlatus, nobis. Hab. ?* 



9. Alex. Thomas, Esq., in medical charge of Khyook Phoo, Ram- 

 ri, Arakan. A fine specimen in spirit of Platydactyi/us gecko, (L.) 



10. Mrs. Turnbull. A fine stuffed specimen of Petatjrus sciu- 

 riijs, (Shaw). 



11. H. H. Atkinson, Esq. A few bird-skins procured at Singapore. 



12. The Rev. J. Cave Browne, late of Subathoo. A small collection 

 chiefly reptiles in spirit, with a few insects, procured in that neigh- 

 bourhood. 



* In the Conspectus Ineptorum et StridJúonum of the late Prince of Canino, 

 pnblished in the Comptes Hendus, tom. XLIII (1856), 840-1, only one species of 

 Casuaeius is recognised (!) ; but a second Deomaius or Emeu, as De. atee, 

 Vieillot, from "l'isle Decrés," which would appear to be already extinct ; while a 

 third species, from the interior of Australia, with transversely barred plumage, 

 has recently been brought to the notice of the Zoological Society. H. H. also 

 indicated a second Ostrich doubtfully, as Steuthio epoasticus, C. L. Bonap., 

 which is doubtless the northern race with smooth and poreless egg-shell noticed 

 in J. A. S. XXVIII, 282. The two living species of Nandou, or Rhea, — the 

 three-toed American Ostrich, — are of course recognised ; and at least three, if not 

 four (!), living species of Apteetx ; with no fewer than 38 species, more or less 

 satisfactorily made out, of Inepti and Sbruthiones of various zoological epochs ; 

 but the knowledge of the greater portion of these is vague in the extreme; and 

 the Prince's bold attempt at classification of them will simply, as such, meet with 

 approval. At the head of the Inepti he places the huge Epioenis of Mada- 

 gascar, a fragment oí the egg-shell of which I have recently procured for the 

 Society's museum, presented to by M. Zill. This giant bird appears to have 

 been first indicated (to Europeans) by the missionary Ellis, though not scienti- 

 fically brought to notice. The natives of Madagascar imagine that the eggs of 

 the Epioenis are those of some huge saurian. 



