Mr. E. Blyth on a new Species of Cassowary. 113 



gine the Truncatella duhiosa of the late lamented Professor C. B. 

 Adams to be a species of Tomichia. 



On the side of the foot is seen a dark line, which indicates 

 the position of the opercular lobe. In one species, from Mat- 

 sumai, this dark-coloured lobe is more conspicuous than in the 

 other, from Sado. 



Both species are found on damp banks covered with vegetation, 

 in rocky situations near the sea. 



The colour of the long head and flattened rostrum is light 

 blackish-brown ; and the foot is pale brown, with the sole nearly 

 white. The obtuse tips of the triangular tentacles are dark, 

 and may have induced Mr. Benson to name Diplommatina (a 

 genus not far removed in organization from Tomichia) the 

 " double-eyed/' — the existence of two eyes on each side being 

 extremely improbable. 



Shanghai, Feb. 20, 1860. 



XIX. — Description of a new species of Cassowary living in the 

 Menagerie of the Babu Rajendra Mullick at Calcutta. By 

 Edward Blyth, Curator of the Royal Asiatic Society's Mu- 

 seum, Calcutta*. 



Casuarius uno-appendiculatus, nobis, n. s., is so named from 

 its peculiarity of having but a single pendulous caruncle in front 

 of the neck. Specimen apparently more than half-grown, and 

 much paler in the colouring of its plumage than specimens of the 

 same age of the common C. galeatus, two fine examples of which 

 are associated with it in the same paddock. In lieu of the two 

 bright-red caruncles of the latter, the new species has but a 

 single, small oblong or elongate-oval, yellow caruncle ; and the 

 bright colours of the naked portion of the neck are differently 

 disposed. The cheeks and throat are smalt-blue, below which is 

 a large, wrinkled, yellow space in front of the neck, terminating 

 in front in the oval button-like caruncle, and its lower portion 

 being continued round behind ; while on the sides of the neck the 

 yellow naked portion is continued down to its base, the bordering 

 feathers more or less covering and concealing this lateral stripe 

 of unfeathered skin : on the hind part of the neck the bare 

 yellow skin is not tumid and corrugated as in the common 

 Cassowary, where also this part is bright red. The casque is 

 about equally developed at this age in the two species. The legs 

 of the new species are smaller, from which circumstance I doubt 

 whether it attains to quite so large a size as the other f. 



* From the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (I860), vol. 

 xxx. p. 113. Communicated by P. L. Sclater. 



t It appears, by a letter from Mr. Westerman, that a living Casso- 



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