| OCR Text |
Show 414 MR. A. GROTE ON OVIS POLII. [May 2, of these birds at Sydney, and the officers of the ship ' Paramatta' for their passage home. This addition augments the number of Cassowaries now living in the collection to 8 individuals, belonging to 6 species, namely:- Number. 1 •1 1 1 2 Latin name. C. uniappendiculatus C. picticollis How and when obtained. Purchased March 3, 1874. Presented by Sir J. Fergusson, Bart., F.Z.S., June 7, 1875. Presented by the Marquess of Normanby, January 23, 1875. Presented by E. P. Ramsay, Esq., C.M.Z.S., May 28, 1875. Presented by Capt. Moresby, Aug. 25, 1874. Purchased May 27, 1874. Presented by the Rev. Geo. Brown, C.M.Z.S., April 26, 1876. The Secretary read extracts from several letters addressed to him by Dr. George Bennett, F.Z,S., dated from Sydney in February last, referring to the proceedings of Mr. L. M . D'Albertis, C.M.Z.S., who had arrived in Sydney on the 4th of February from Yule Island, New Guinea, and was intending to stay there two months to recruit and obtain supplies, and then to return to New Guinea. Dr. Bennett enclosed a plan of the " Fly River," New Guinea, made during the cruise up it of the London Missionary Society's steamer ' Ellengowan,' in December 1875, in which M . D'Albertis, who had accompanied the expedition, had marked the different birds he had obtained or observed during the voyage. Amongst these were noted Paradisea raggiana, Goura sp. inc., Buceros ruficollis, Tadorna sp. inc., Manucodia viridis, Epimachus magnificus, and other rare species. Mr. Osbert Salvin, F.R.S., exhibited and made remarks on a portion of a trunk of pine (Pinus) from Guatemala, perforated by a Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), for the purpose of storing acorns*. Mr. G. Dawson Rowley, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of Machari-rhynchus nigripectus of Schlegel, from New Guinea, being the fourth known member of this very curious genus founded by Mr. Gould. This he believed to be the first example of this species which had reached this country. Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., F.Z.S., exhibited an example of the Lesser Whitefronted Goose (Anser erythropus), killed in Egypt, and made a few remarks on the other known Geese of that country. Mr. A. Grote exhibited the original drawing by Col. Gordon, * Cf. Baird, Brewer, k Ridgway, 'North American Birds,' vol. ii. p. 569. |
