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have been continually imported into Europe, so that it has become 
one of the best-known members of the subclass Ratite, and a 
description of it seems hardly necessary. For a long time its 
glossy, but coarse and hair-like, black plumage, its lofty helmet, 
the gaudily-coloured caruncles of its neck, and the four or five 
barbless quills which represent its wing-feathers, made it appear 
unique among birds. But in 1857 Dr. George Bennett certified 
the existence of a second and perfectly distinct species of 
Cassowary, an inhabitant of New Britain, where it was known to 
the natives as the Mooruk, and in his honour it was named by 
Gould (. bennett. Several examples were soon after received in 
this country, and these confirmed the view of it already taken. 
Nine good species, with the possibility of a tenth, are recognized 
by Prof. Salvadori in his great work, Ornithologia della Papuasia e 
delle Molucche (iii. pp. 473-503), the heads of all of them having 
been previously figured by him in an excellent monograph of the 
genus (Mem. Accad. Sc. Torino, 1882), from various localities in the 
same Subregion. Conspicuous among them from its large size and 
lofty helmet is the C. australis, from the northern parts of Queens- 
land. Its existence indeed had been ascertained, by the late Mr. 
T.S. Wall, in 1854, but the specimen obtained by that unfortunate 
explorer was lost, and it was not until 1866 that an example was 
submitted to competent naturalists (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 241). 
Not much seems to be known of the habits of any of the 
Cassowaries in a state of nature; but Prof. Salvadori (ué supri) 
has collected, with his usual assiduity, almost everything that can 
be said on the subject. Though the old species occurs rather 
plentifully over the whole of the interior of Ceram, Mr. Wallace 
was unable to obtain or even to see an example. They all appear 
to bear captivity well, and the hens in confinement frequently lay 
their dark green and rough-shelled eggs, which, according to the 
custom of the Latitx, are incubated by the cocks. The nestling 
plumage is mottled (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1863, pl. xlii.), and when 
about half-grown they are clothed in dishevelled feathers of a deep 
tawny colour. 
CAT-BIRD in North America is the name of a common and fami- 
liar summer-visitant, Mimus carolinensis, one of the MocKING-BIRDS, 
which in addition to the mewing and harsh cry for which it is 
notorious, is also a remarkably good songster; in Australia the 
birds of the genus Ailuredus (BOWER-BIRD), and especially A. crassi- 
rostris, or smithi of some authors, are so called for the same reason. 
CECOMORPH 4, the third group of Prof. Huxley’s Suborder 
ScuiIzoGNATHA (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 457, 458), composed of 
former nation, whose names for places and various natural objects would be 
imparted to their employers (see ALBATROS, Boosy, and Dopo), 
