590 CASTJARIID^. 



Family 11. CASUARIID^. 



Bill long, compressed, with the ciilraen curved to the tip, which 

 overlaps that of the under mandible ; the nostrils placed in the 

 middle of the bill, and in a broad membranous groove, with the 

 opening anteriorly and suboval. The head and base of ciilmen 

 ornamented with an elevated helmet ; the head and neck denuded 

 of feathers, the naked skin brightly coloured ; the neck wattled. 

 The wings rudimentary, with five strong rounded shafts without 

 webs. Tail not apparent. Tarsi long, robust, and covered with 

 large hexagonal scutes, except near the toes, where the scutes are 

 transverse. Toes loug, the lateral ones shorter than the middle one, 

 the outer the longest, and the inner armed with a very loug powerful 

 claw, nearly straight and acuminate ; the other claws moderate, 

 curved, and obtuse. 



1. CASUARIUS. 



Type. 



Casuarius, Briss. Orn. v. p. 10 (1760) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 



ii. p. 664 (1790) C. galeatus. 



Rhea, Lacif. {nee Lath.) Mem. de VInst. iii. p. 519 



(1800-1) (=Casuarius). 

 Hippalectryo, Gloger, Hand- u. Hilfsb. pp. xxxxiii, 4-52 



(1842) C. galeatus. 



Range. Papuan Subregion, with Northern Australia. 



\Cf. Salvadori,T., Monograiia del genere Casuarius, Briss. (Mem. R. Ac. 

 Sc. Tor. (2) xxxiv. pp. 173-217, tt. i., ii. 1882>] 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. Casque compressed on the sides. 



a'. Three wattles on the throat — one median, 

 small, lower down ; two on the sides, 



longer and higher up tricarunculatns, p. 591. 



b'. Only two wattles on the throat. 



a". Wattles quite far apart on the sides of 



the throat bicarnnculatus, p. 591. 



h" . Wattles not far apart, but approached 

 one to the other. 

 a'" . Smaller : the casque not very high, 

 thicker above ; nail of the inner toe 



shorter galeatus, p. 592. 



V" . Larger : the casque very high, 



thinner above; nail of the inner , . y cq^ 

 toe longer ; wattles very large .... ^^^^.^^^^^-^ 595 

 c". Wattles joined together at the base, or, '" ' ^' 



rather, one long wattle ou the throat 

 more or less deeply divided at the 

 tip beccarii, p. 596. 



