. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . which had been sitting on some eggs for a considerable time, but they were evidently unfertilized. He was surprised, however, when the honourablegentleman presented him with these rare specimens for his collection at Melbourne, in far off had actually to go to London to collect the eggs of the Queensland Cassowary. 679 — I BENNETTS CASSOWARY OR MOORUK, Castiarius Beniuiti, Gould.(See Goulds Handbook to the Birds of Australia, Vol. ii
. Egg collecting and bird life of Australia. Catalogue and data of the "Jacaksonian oological collection," illustrated with numerous photographs .. . which had been sitting on some eggs for a considerable time, but they were evidently unfertilized. He was surprised, however, when the honourablegentleman presented him with these rare specimens for his collection at Melbourne, in far off had actually to go to London to collect the eggs of the Queensland Cassowary. 679 — I BENNETTS CASSOWARY OR MOORUK, Castiarius Beniuiti, Gould.(See Goulds Handbook to the Birds of Australia, Vol. ii., page 561, spm. 18 )Although this is not an .Vustralian bird, I have decided to keep this rare egg in the collection,firstly, because it belongs to a Cassowary which is very rapidly becoming extinct, and, secondly, onaccount of it inhabiting New Britain, north of Queensland. Probably the bird existed in the CapeYork Peninsula of Queensland, before New Guinea and New Britain were cut one from the other, andseparated by water from .Australia. That New Guinea and .Australia were at one time united is 160 THE [ACKSONIAN OOLOOICAI, ^
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