5S8 DEOM^IDiE. 



Adult male. Feathers of the head and hind neck black, short, 

 hairy, and recurved ; naked skin of the sides of the head and throat 

 bhie ; feathers of the body greyish, with the tips black ; feathers 

 of the legs grey, with small black spots at the tip ; irides brown : 

 bill and feet blackish. Total length about 78*74 inches, tarsus 13*38, 

 culmen 2*44. 



Female. Similar, but somewhat smaller. 



Young. Darker than the adult. 



Nestling. " Greyish white, with two stripes of black down the back, 

 and two others on each side, each subdivided by a narrow middle 

 line of white — these stripes being continued along the neck without 

 subdivision, and broken into irregular spots on the head ; two other 

 broken stripes pass down the fore part of the neck and breast, and 

 terminate in a broad band across the thighs " (Gould). 



Hah. Eastern Australia, from Cape York, and perhaps also from 

 Port Essingtou, to Victoria ; formerly also Tasmania. 



a. Ad. St. Australia. Rev. G. W. Keightley 



b. Pull. sk. Port Lesclienault. W. E. Bates, Esq. [P.]. 



c. d. Pull. st. 



e. Pull. St. Bred in confinement. Zool. Soc. 



/. Pull, st Bred in confinement. G. E. Loder, Esq. [P.]. 



</. Pull. st. Bred in confinement. Surrey Zool. Gard. 



h-i. Ad. sk. Tasmania. Ronald Gunn, Esq. [P.]. 



k. Skeleton. Lord Lillbrd [P.]. 

 I. Skeleton. 



2. Dromaeus ater. 



Casoar de la Nouvelle Hollande (Casiiarius novae hoUandiEe), Peron 



(nee Lath.), JRelat. du Voy. de dicouv. aiuv Terr. Ansir. i. p. 467 



(1807) ; id. op. cit. 2nd ed. iii. p. 135 (1824). 

 Dromaius ater, Vieill. N. I), x. p. 212 (part.) (1817) ; id. Gal. des 



Ois. ii. p. 79, pi. 226 (1825) ; G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 2, n. 9846 



(1871) ; A. Milne-Edw. S^ Oust. Notice sur quelques Especes d'Ois. 



eteintes, pp. 62-67, pi. v. (1893). 

 ? Dromaeus parvulus, " Gould," fide Broderip, Penny Cyclop, xxiii. 



p. 145 (1842). 

 Dromaeus ater, Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 841, n. 5 (1856*) ; Blyth, 



Ibis, 1862, p. 93. 



Adult (type). Similar to D. nova? lioUancUw, but much smaller, 

 and with feathers of the neck entirely black ; feathers of the body 

 brown-fulvous, with the apical half very dark brown ; feathers of 

 the legs brown -fulvous mixed with blackish brown : bill and feet 

 blackish ; naked skin of the sides of the neck and throat apparently 

 blue. Total length about 55 inches, tarsus 11*40, culmen 2-36 

 (Mus. Paris). Also the skeleton shows important specific characters. 



* Prince Bonaparte mentions (/. c.) zoological and iinatoiuical character.-* 

 distinguishing B. ater from D. nova hoUandirs ; cf. also /. c. p. 1026. 



