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mediately to the south. At Momi he bought a small living 
Cassowary, apparently of a new species, distinguishable by 
having a small median as well as two lateral throat-wattles, 
which he proposes to call C. tricarunculatus* from this 
feature. It is not true, he observes, that, as Schlegel has 
stated, each Cassowary is limited to a certain district. At 
Dorey two species are certainly met with, of both of which 
he has obtained specimens. At Ansus,.a port in the island 
of Jobi to which Beccari proceeded from Warbusi, are like- 
wise probably two species t. In Jobi, Beccari also obtained 
a series of specimens of Paradisea papuana, slightly differing 
from those of the mainland of New Guinea, and examples of 
Diphyllodes speciosa, distinguished by their longer bills and 
the more brilliant yellow of the wings. These latter are, no 
doubt, referable to Mr. Gould’s D. chrysoptera, spoken of 
below, of which therefore Jobi is the true patria. . From Jobi 
Beccari sailed northwards to Kordo or Korido, and the ad- 
joining islet of Sowek, thence westwards to Mafor, where a 
fine series of Tanysiptera caroline was obtained, and from 
Mafor back to Dorey. From Dorey he made an excursion 
into the Arfak Mountains, where he spent a month, first at a 
station of about 5000 feet altitude, and then at another of 
about 3500 feet, rather lower than the place inhabited by 
D’Albertis. Beccari maintains that neither Rosenberg nor 
Meyer ever penetrated into these mountains. Rosenberg, he 
declares, never got further than the home of Hr. Waelders, 
a missionary at Andai, about a kilometre distant from the 
coast, although he proudly labelled his birds (as may be seen 
by reference to Schlegel’s Catalogues), “Interior of the 
northern peninsula of New Guinea.” Of Dr. Meyer, Beccari 
tells the same tale; Andai was likewise his furthest point 
visited personally. After D’Albertis and Beccari had left 
* Ann. Mus. di St. Nat. di Genova, vii. p. 717. 
+ One of these Dr. Salvadori describes as new, in a footnote, from a 
coloured sketch of Beccari’s, under the name Casuarius occipitalis (op. s. ¢. 
p- 17). The other he supposes to be my C. westermanni. But is Dr. 
Salvadori sure that his C. occipitalis does not = my C. westermanni? 
—P.L.58. 










