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Show 1873.] LORD WALDEN ON PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 519 graph of the egg of Flinders's Cuckoo (Eudynamysflindersi), dropped by a bird shot by Mr. Masters, Subcurator of the Australian Museum. The latter was of a uniform white. These were sent for exhibition by Dr. G. Bennett, F.Z.S., of Sydney, N.S.W. 2. A series of photographs of various novelties lately added to the Australian Museum, Sydney, transmitted to the Society by Mr. G. Krefft, C.M.Z.S. Amongst these were figures of a supposed new venomous Snake from the Northern Territory, discovered by Mr. T. G. Waterhouse, of Adelaide, and supposed to form the type of a new genus ; also of a new species of Chelodina from the Burnett River, Queensland. 3. The skin of the adult Casuarius bicarunculatus figured P. Z. S. 1872, p. 495, pl. xxvi., which had died April 1, 1873, exhibited by the Secretary, who, in reference to some previous remarks on the distribution of the Cassowaries, read the following extract from a letter addressed to him by Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., of Sydney :- "I observe, in the Society's 'Proceedings' for 1872, p. 150, it is mentioned that the habitat of the Mooruk (Casuarius bennetti) is the Solomon Islands as well as New Britain. This must evidently be an error, and appears to be founded on a specimen of that bird at Auckland, which was supposed (certainly erroneously) to have been brought from the Solomon Islands. " N o w I have never heard from any of the traders to the islands that the Mooruk had ever been found at any other island than that of N ew Britain ; and if a Cassowary had been found at the Solomon Islands it would probably be of a new species. "When at Brisbane, I met Captain Fergusson, of the 'Captain Cook,' who had visited the Solomon Islands, N ew Britain, and New Ireland, and had obtained two living Mooruks, which died on the passage, and also a number of eggs; but he told me he had obtained them at N e w Britain. I recollect a Mooruk was sent to Sir George Grey from Sydney; and very probably the one alluded to is the identical bird." Mr. Sclater added that he had no doubt that Dr. Bennett was correct, and that the Solomon Islands should be expunged from the habitat of Casuarius bennetti, as given I. s. c. 4. A series of skins and skulls of the new Muntjac from Ningpo, China, lately described by Mr. Swinhoe as Cervulus sclateri (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 813). These embraced a skin and skull of an adult male from Ningpo, killed in November 1872, a flat skin with skull of another male, killed at Kinkiang in January 1873, and a skin and skull of a young female, killed at Ningpo in November 1872. These were sent for exhibition by Mr. Swinhoe. Lord Walden read a memoir on the Birds of the Philippine archipelago, commencing with the following preliminary remarks :- "In the month of December 1871 and the first three months of the following year some of the principal islands of the Philippine archipelago were visited by Dr. A. Bernhard Meyer, the well- |