nOO castjariid.t:. 



p. 389 ; IMs, 1878, p. 482, 1879, p. 96 ; SclaL List Vert. An. 7tli ed. 



p. 473 (1879) ; id. op. cit. 8th ed. p. 549 (1883). 

 Casuarius, sp., Meyer, Sitzh. k. Ah. Wiss. Wien, Ixix. p. 216 (1874). 

 Casuariiis edwardsii, Oust. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 389, pi. xxi. (Dorei); 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Cic. Gen. xii. p. 425 ^878) ; Rchnw. J. f. O. 



1878, p. 203 ; Meyer, J. f. 0. 1878, pp. 299, 303 ; Sclat. 4- Salv. Ibis, 



1878, p. 482, 1879, p. 96. 



Adult. Feathers of the body black ; the casque is blackish, and 

 has the shape of a triangular pyramid, with the posterior surface 

 flat and inclined forwards ; no caruncles whatever ; head, throat, 

 and fore neck blue ; occiput and auricular region greenish grey ; 

 hind neck orange, changing into flesh-colour on the naked area of 

 the lower part of the sides of the neck ; feet greenish grey ; iris 

 blackish. Total length about 55 inches, tarsus 10-22, bill from 

 gape 4'70, nail of inner toe 3'07. 



I'oimi/. Brown, with the shafts of the feathers blackish. 



Hab. Xorth-western New Guinea, from Dorei to Emberbaki. 



a. Ad. St. New Guinea. Zool. Soc. (Received 20th Sept., 1871.) 



(Tvi^e of C. westermaimi, Sjlat.) 



1*1. Casuarius picticollis. 



Casuarius picticollis, Sclat. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1874, p. 138 ; id. P. Z. S. 



1875, pp. 83, 85, pi. xviii. (Milne Bay, S.E. Xew Guinea), p. 349 

 (young, Milne Bay) ; id. Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1875, p. 112 ; id. J.f. O. 



1876, p. 258; id. P. Z. H. 1876, p. 414 (speeim. in coufiuement) ; 

 id. List Vert. An. 6th ed. p. 423 (1877) ; Gould, B. New Guin. v. 

 pi. 14 (pt. v., 1877); Forbes, P. Z. S. 1877, pp. 307, 315, 316 

 (cloacii) ; Hartin<i, Ostriches ^- O'^tr. Farm. p. 121 (1877) ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1877, p. 352 ; Meyer, J.f. O. 1878, p. 203 ; Sclat. Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 96; Sharjje, ibid. p. 116 (tvpe) ; Sclat. List T'ert. An. 7th ed. 

 p. 473 (1879); Salvad. Mem.'R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xxxiv. p. 213, 

 tav. ii. f. 9 (head) (1881); id. Ann. Mies. Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 415, 

 n. 8 (1882) ; id. Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 499 (1882) ; Sclat. List 

 Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 549 (1883) ; ? Meyer, Abh. Mus. Dresd. 

 no. 3, p. 29, taf. 2. ff. 1, 2 (egg) (1893) ; ? Schal. J. f. O. 1894, 

 p. 25 (egg). 



Casuarius kaupi, Sharije (nee Rosenb.), Ibis, 1881, p. 500 (S.E. New 



Guinea). 

 ? Casuarius (beccari ?), Rams. Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. viii. p. 27 



(egg) (1883). 

 ? Casuarius, .sp., Salvad. Agy. Orn. Pap. e Mol. p. 213 (1891). 



This species is allied to C. pajmanus, from which it differs in 

 having the throat red, instead of blue, and the hind part of the 

 lower neck light blue, instead of orange. 



The type of this species is not fully adult. A fully adult male 

 with the naked parts very brightly coloured, collected by Signor 

 Loria at Moroka, is in the Museum of Genoa. From a coloured 

 sketch of the naked parts made by the collector on the spot, I take 

 the following description : — 



