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and on face-wattles. Rest of fore- and hind-neck and naked lower sides of neck deep 

 bright orange, without any red. Throat- wattle blue. On the occiput a very wide and 

 large transverse patch of bright orange. Face-wattles large and very thick, balloou- 

 shaped when inflated by the bird during anger. Bill short and thick. Casque low, 

 compressed laterally, and not flattened posteriorly or hardly so. Pkimage black and 

 coarse; legs brownish grey; iris pale brown. Build slender and tall, but not so tall as 

 either C. unappendiculatus or C. u. occipitalis. 



Young and chick unknown. 



This form differs both from C. unappendiculatus and C. u. occipitalis in its slender 

 build and paler blue colouring, but principally in the uniform orange of the neck, the 

 laterally compressed and posteriorly not flattened casque, and in the thick swollen 

 face-wattles, which are very similar to those of the following species, Casuarius philipi. 



Hub. German New Guinea. 



This form is known from one individual living at present in the Zoological Garden 

 of Berlin, where Mr, Keulemans made the accompanying picture. It is most interesting 

 to find the one-wattled group of Cassowaries extending to Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, and I 

 have no doubt whatever that my aurccntiacuH is a very good subspecies. 



My original description {I. c.) is as follows : — 



" Face, cheeks, and occiput pale sky-blue ; throat dark blue. Occipital patcii, fore- 

 neck, hind-neck, and lower sides of the neck deep reddish orange. Casque horny 

 green, and much more compressed laterally than in C. unappendiculatxis. Long cheek- 

 wattles absent, but the sides of the face distended as in C. philipi." 



12. Casuarius unappendiculatus rufotlnctus, subsp. nov. Red-tinted One-wattled 

 Cassowary. 



Casque greenish horn-colour, compressed laterally and not depressed posteriorly ; 

 plumage black, mixed with brown, as the bird is not quite in full adult plumage, though 

 otherwise in full colour. Head, face, occiput, and upper hind-neck bright pale blue ; 

 on the occiput is a large patch of orange-brown. Chin and throat deep indigo-blue, 

 which colour runs down the centre of the fore-neck in a triangular banil to the base of 

 the wattle, where it is about 1 inch wide. Wattle blue. Sides of fore-neck orange- 

 scarlet, changing to crimson when excited and the throat distended. Lower naked 

 sides of neck deep crimson, with a narrow anterior yellow border. 



Hub. unknown. 



I had this bird as a chick in striped plumage, and it was reared as a pet at Tring, 

 but since it has been in this Society's Gardens (15 months) it has come into colour and 

 is very different from any other form of C. unapjpendiculat us. It is now 3 years old. 



