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Show 1874.] DR. E. GRTJBE ON NEW ANNULATA. 325 The following extracts were read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Mr. E. P. Ramsay, C.M.Z.S., dated Cardwell, Queensland, April 2, 1874:- " I find the Cassowary (Casuarius australis) by no means rare here, and have secured a fine bird alive for the Society, which I propose sending to you the first chance I have. I hope to be able to get another soon. I have also the egg ; it closely resembles that of Bennett's Cassowary (C. bennetti), and is of about the same size. The birds had only laid four eggs when the nest was found; it was placed in a dense scrub at the foot of climbing palms (Calamus). " I would have written before about the Cassowary ; but it was in a very wretched state when I got it, and so weak that it could not stand. I was afraid it would die, and, remembering the fate of the young Lyre-birds which I had some years ago, was somewhat superstitious. At present, however, at any rate, the Cassowary is all right, and takes good care that no one shall interfere with its domain. I have had a yard built for it here; it is very pugnacious, and kicks and hisses violently at any strangers; it is very fond of bathing. This species (C. australis) swims well, and the birds have frequently escaped me by swimming across the creeks. I find they are not rare on Hinchenbrook Island, and to get there must swim across a distance of two miles from the mainland. The specimen I have is about 3 feet 6 inches in height, and can reach over 6 feet, and, by jumping, 10 feet high. I have known one in the possession of Subinspector Johnstone of the Police to jump out of its enclosure over a fence more than 6 feet 6 inches high. This specimen was only about 2 feet 6 inches in height and about half the size of my bird, which is now just getting its helmet." Major Irby, F.Z.S., exhibited specimens of an apparently new species of Raven, which he had lately obtained in the vicinity of Tangier, Morocco, and which he was intending to describe under the name of Corous tingitanus. Prof. Owen, F.R.S., read the fifth of his series of memoirs on the osteology of the Marsupialia. This paper will be printed entire in the Society's ' Transactions.' The following papers were read :- 1. Descriptiones Annulatorum novorum mare Ceylonicum habitantium ab honoratissimo Holdsworth collectorum, auctore Dr. E D . GRUBE. [Received May 6, 1874.] Inter Annulata ab honoratissimo Holdsworth in mari Ceylonico collecta, a me perlustrata, nonnulla erant mihi nondum cognita, quorum descriptiones, quum de coloribus mensurisque animalium |