206 CASUARIUS GASUARIÜS BTSTRIATUS, 



the top of the casque is black, on the sides blackish with 

 dark brown spots and along the base yellowish white. 

 The bill is black, only the tip is greyish and the base of 

 the lower mandible is yellowish green. The length of the 

 bill from the tip to the casque is 63 mm., the length from 

 the gape 133 mm. 



The chin, throat and fore part of the neck are dark 

 blue. Along the base of the casque and principally in front 

 of the eyes the colour is dark blue, while in the back part 

 the colour along the base is greenish. The wattles are 

 short and fleshy-red ; from the base of the lower mandible 

 at each side a very conspicuous ridge of a fleshy-red colour 

 leads to the base of the wattles. A similar ridge is to be 

 seen on the plate ofC. c.beccarii ia Rothschild's Monograph, 

 but here these ridges but very slightly differ in coloration 

 from the surrounding parts. The wattles are joined at the 

 base for about 15 mm.; the right wattle is 26 mm. long, 

 the left 34 mm. The head, the sides of the head round 

 the ears and the occiput are dark grey with here and 

 there a slight bluish tinge ; the same coloration has the 

 upper part of the hind neck. Naked upper sides of the 

 neck are dark blue mixed with dark grey, only their lower 

 portion is pure dark blue. The lower part of the hind neck 

 is orange , passing to its margins into vermillion ; this 

 latter colour is also to see between the surrounding feathers. 

 Between the bluish grey upper part of the hind neck and 

 the lower orange parts the coloration is a mixture of 

 greyish blue and orange red, lying between two upward 

 offshoots of the orange red colour of the hind neck. 



The naked lower sides of the neck surrounded by the 

 feathers are in the middle greyish with violet, blue and 

 fleshy-red tinges; anteriorly they are dark blue, posteriorly 

 scarlet vermillion, which colour passes between the feathers 

 into orange vermillion. 



The legs are brownish grey and the irides brown. 



Leyden Museum, December 1907. 



Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXIX. 



