596 CASUARIID^. 



Hah. Western coast of Geelvink Bay, near the soi;thern ex- 

 tremity. 



a. Ad. St. Wandanimen, Geelvink Bay, L. Laglaize [C.]. (Type 

 May 1876. of Casuarius altijuguSj Sclat.) 



6. Casuarius beccarii. 



? Casuarius, sp., <S'. Mnll. Verh. Land- en VolkenJi. p. 22 (Utanata, 



Piincess Marianne Strait) (1839-44). 

 ? Casuarius orientalis, <S'. Mull. op. cit. p. 10f> (part., ex Nova Guinea) 



(1839-44). 

 Casuarius beccarii, Sclat. F. Z. S. 1875, p. 87, ff. 1, 2 in p. 86 (Vo- 



kan, Aru I.), p. 527, pi. Iviii. (S. New Guinea), and p. 533; id. 



Nature, xii. p. 516 (1875); Salcad. Arm. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 717 



(note) (1875) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 414 (live specim.) ; Harting, 



Ostriches ^- Ostr. Farm. p. 107 (1877) : Forhes, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 



307, 316 (cloaca and bursa Fabricii) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 325 ; 



Sclat. Sf Salv. Ibis, 1877, p. 372 (note) : Oust. Assoc. Sc. de F'rance, 



Bull. no. 539, p. 350 (1878) ; Meyer, J.f. O. 1878, pp. 202, 300 ; 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. pp. 421, 422 (1878) ; ScM. P. Z. S. 



1878, p. 214 ; Sclat. ^- Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 481, 1879, p. 96 ; D'Alb. 



iS- Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. pp. 186-145, ff. pp. 137, 139, 



140, 141, 142, 143 a879); Hd. Ibis, 1879, p. 482; Sclat. List 



Vert. An. p. 472 (1879); I)' Alb. Nuova Guin. pp. 494, 588 



(1880); Sharpe, Ibis, 1881, p. 500; Sakad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. 



(2) xxxiv. p. 197, tav. i. f 5 (1881) ; id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xviii. 



p. 414, n. 4 (1882) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 484 (1882) ; Sclat. 



List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 549 (1683) ; Schal. J.f. O. 1894, p. 21. 

 Casuarius bicarunculatus, Becc. (nee Sclat.) Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vii. 



p. 717 (1875). 

 Ca.suarius australis, D'Alh. (nee Wall) Sydn. Mail, 1877, p. 143; 



id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. x. p. 19 (1877) ; id. Ibis, 1877, p. 372. 

 Casuarius sclaterii, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 422 (19th 



July, 1878) ; Ibis, 1878, p. 481 ; Meyer, J. f. O. 1878, p. 300 ; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, p. 116 (type in the Brit. Mus.). 

 ? Casuarius galeatus, Sclat. Zool. J'oy. ' Challenger,' Birds, p. 64 



(1881). 

 r Casuarius, sp., Meyer, Zeitschr. d. qes. Orn. i. p. 296 {eg^ from Am 



Isl.) (1884) ; Salvad. Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xlii. p. 213 (1891). 



Adult. Feathers of the body black ; casque compressed, thick on 

 the anterior and posterior edges, thinner on the middle, very high, 

 and with the upper edge rather thin ; the posterior edge usually 

 inclined backwards, sometimes almost perpendicular, shorter than 

 the anterior edge : head gre3--blue, a band from the base of the 

 lower mandible yellow, changing into red posteriorly ; throat and 

 sides of the neck blue ; nape red on the upper part, changing into 

 orange lower down, naked area on the lower part of the sides of the 

 neck flesh-colour ; on the anterior part of the neck a Tery long 

 caruncle, more or less divided into two at the tip, and of a flesh- 

 colour. Total length about 63 inches, bill from gape 5-50, tarsus 11, 

 nail of the inner toe 3-07. 



