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E. D. VAN OORT. BIRDS. 



The casque is about no mm. high, very thin, compressée! laterally and curved over 

 to the right. The fore part is black, the sides of the casque are brownish and greenish with 

 pale orange markings. The claw of the innertoe measures 90 mm. Thèse rather poor documents 

 proof that this Cassowary belongs to a large form, which is very much like C. c. sclaterii Salvadori. 



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Coll. LORENTZ : 



Mr. LORENTZ brought home alive 

 three young Cassovvaries from the vicinity 

 of Merauke. The youngest one died at 

 its arrivai in Holland, the other ones are 

 still alive, one in the Zoological Garden 

 at Rotterdam, the other in that at Am- 

 sterdam. 



The dead spécimen has been bought 

 by Mr. Lorentz in November 1907 at 

 Okaba, a little west of Merauke. It is 

 a maie and about 300 mm. high. The 

 wattles are already well developped, about 

 14 mm. long and covered with hairlike 

 plumes. Head and neck are brownisch 

 white, darker brownish on the crown, 

 lower foreneck and lower hindneck. The 

 body is whitish with a broad blackish 

 brown stripe along the back and on each 

 side of the body 4 narrower stripes, the 

 two lower ones running down the tibiae. 

 Length of tarso-metatarsus about 1 16 mm. 

 The two spécimens still alive, of which that 

 in the Zoological Garden at Rotterdam 

 is now about full-grown, are not yet in 

 full plumage nor in full colouring of the 

 naked parts; also the casque is still low 

 and not compressed laterally. Thèse birds 

 at présent can not be determined with 

 certainty, but we may suspect, that they 

 belong to C. c. sclaterii. 



Podicipedidae. 



Podiceps fluviatilis novae hollandiae Stephens. 



Podkeps novae hollandiae Stephens in Shaw, Gen. Zool. XIII, 1826, p. 18. 



Podiceps gularis, Salvadori, Orn. Pap. III, 1882, p. 469. 



Podicipes novae hollandiae, Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. B. Br. M. XXVI, 1898, p. 519. 



