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Show 482 MR. G. KREFFT ON A NEW CASSOWARY. [May 9, I have seen it in Man, Cebus capucinus, Ateles, Cercopithecus, Macacus, Horse, Seal (although Meckel denies its existence in the latter animal) ; and it has been noticed by others in the Dog, Cat, Ichneumon, Marmot, Ornithorhynchus, Deer, Porpoise, &c. (for references vide Wood, loc. cit. p. 51). The chief interest of this fasciculus consists in its being the fore-limb equivalent of the pectineus in quadrupeds (or the adductor brevis according to Mr. Wood). There were no traces of any other muscles in the arm or forearm. The triceps and forearm muscles present in the Balcenoptera were here represented only by intersecting threads of fibrous tissue totally devoid of muscularity. The shoulder-joint had a distinct capsular ligament lined by a synovial sac ; the former was not perforated by any of the neighbouring tendons, and, though thicker below than above, yet had no trace of the inferior scapulo-humeral accessory ligament present in Balcenoptera. N o other joint in the upper limb presented a synovial membrane, all being referable to the amphi-arthrodial order of synchondroses. Of the other joints in the body, a synovial capsule existed for the stylo-hyoidean articulation with the squamous bone, but I could not find one for the lower jaw. I did not notice any undescribed peculiarities in the skeleton worthy of record ; the stylo-hyoid cornu was joined to the body by a round arched ligament of some little length, not like the close union which occurs in Balcenoptera rostrata; the latter is represented (I believe, erroneously) as possessing a long intervenient ligament, in the article "Cetacea" in Todd's 'Cyclopaedia of Anatomv and Physiology.' 3. Description of a N e w Species of Cassowary from Northern Queensland. By G E R A R D K R E F F T , F.L.S., C.M.Z.S., Curator and Secretary of the Australian M u s e u m , Sydney. The existence of a species of Cassowary in the northern part of Australia has been known for many years, from native ornaments in which Cassowary feathers form a part, and from the report of the survivors of Kennedy's expedition, who state that they actually shot one of these birds. Mr. W . S. Wall, late Curator of this Museum, has even gone so far as to give a very brief description of a Cassowary in a defunct Sydney newspaper, published in June 1854. Gould has quoted this description in his ' Handbook on the Birds of A-Vustralia ' accepting the name proposed by Wall, of Casuarius australis, though Wall's description (?) was founded on nothing more than the remarks of one of Kennedy's men, that they had shot a bird unlike an E mu with wiry feathers and a topknot or helmet. The brief account which Wall gives us is as follows : - " T h e bodv thickly covered with dark-brown wiry feathers; on the head is a large prominence or helmet of a bright red colour, and to the neck |
