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Show 1875.j PROF. NEWTON ON THE DODO. 349 carulescens, S. aurantia, S. lineola, and S. hypoleuca) not previously exhibited. 3. A n albino of the Common Macaque (Macacus cynomolgus) or of the Philippine form of the species (M. philippinensis), brought from Samar, Philippines, and presented by Mr. J. Ross, April 23rd. W e have now a pair of these albino Monkeys in the Menagerie. Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on the skin of a chick of a Cassowary (supposed to be Casuarius picticollis, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 84, Plate XVIII.) which had been transmitted to him for examination by Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., of Sydney. The bird had been obtained alive from the natives in Milne Bay, N e w Guinea, by Mr. Godfrey Goodman, Staff-Surgeon, R.N., when on the 'Basilisk' in 1873. It had died on board; and its skin had been preserved by Mr. Goodman. The bird was still in the first down-plumage, and was generally of a pale buffy brown with the head above rufescent. The back was dark with one median and on each side two lateral broad stripes of pale, brown. These stripes ran regularly parallel down the whole length of the back. The whole length of the skin from the beak to the tail was 10*5 in., of the tarsus 2*9, and of the bill from the gape 2*5. Mr. Sclater proposed to deposit this specimen, as requested by Mr. Goodman, in the British Museum. Prof. Newton exhibited two specimens of Ross's Gull (Bhodostethia rossi) received from Greenland by the Royal Museum of Copenhagen. Professor Newton, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., exhibited tracings of some unpublished sketches of the Dodo and other extinct birds of Mauritius, remarking:- "In the summer of 1868 Mr. Hessells, an assistant in the Public Library of the University of Cambridge, informed me that, having lately been in Holland, he had there been shown the original manuscript of a journal kept during the voyage of Wolphart Harmanszoon to Mauritius in 1601-1602, which was embellished by drawings of the Dodo (Didus ineptus) and other birds. The text of the journal I was told had been published, but not so these sketches. I at once wrote to Professor Schlegel, acquainting him with the fact; and he replied that his attention had been already drawn to this very interesting volume, which, if I am not mistaken, belongs to a library at Utrecht. He further told me that among the birds represented were species which could be easily identified as Aphanapteryx broechi and Psittacus mauritianus, and added that he was preparing a memoir on the subject. " I have naturally been most anxious ever since to see these sketches or copies of them; but expecting that Prof. Schlegel would shortly carry out his intention, I was careful not to interfere with his design, and contented myself with inserting a short notice of the fact in the 'Ibis'for 1868 (pp. 503-504). I have, however, waited in |