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at the time of Peron's visit, and I believe, if authentic specimens from these 

 localities were in existence we should find that each of these islands had had 

 a distinct species or race of Emus. Taking this for granted, and also taking 

 into account that it is slightly different from the type of D. peronii, I have 

 come to the conclusion that the Liverpool specimen is an immature, though 

 full-grown individual from one of these other islands; but it is not possible 

 from this one rather poor specimen to separate it from the Kangaroo Island 

 species, especially as there is absolutely no indication of the origin of this 

 specimen. 



Habitat : Island of Decres or Kangaroo Island. 



One stuffed specimen (Type) and one skeleton in Paris, one skeleton 

 in Florence, and one stuffed specimen in Liverpool (an species diversa?). Also 

 some leg-bones in Adelaide, Australia. 



Dr. H. O. Forbes, who kindly lent me the last-named specimen, was 

 the first to point out the differences of this bird from D. novaehollandiae. 

 It is certainly totally distinct from birds of similar age of either D. novae- 

 hollandiae or D. n. irroratus. 



