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So far as Birds are concerned, the following call for special com- 

 ment : — Two specimens of the Victoria Crowned Pigeon (Goura 

 victoria), a handsomer bird than the commoner species, G. coronata, 

 of which there was a pair in the Gardens last year ; a Blue-necked 

 Cassowary (C. intensus), from New Guinea, which adds one more to 

 the exceptionally fine series of Cassowaries now on exhibit ; and a 

 Dabchick, or Little Grebe. The accession of the latter will give 

 visitors to the Diving Birds' House at feeding-time an opportunity for 

 comparing the different methods of subaquatic progression indepen- 

 dently acquired by the Cormorants, the Grebes, and the Penguins. 

 Some Divers, Guillemots, Razorbills, or Puffins would make a most 

 welcome and interesting addition to the series, should a chance of 

 procuring specimens of these species for the Society be afforded to 

 any readers of 'The Zoologist.' 



R. I. P. 



