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fore-neck, round and flat, not pear-shaped as in C. imiajypendiculatus ; upper third of 

 wattle purplish red, rest dark blue. Hairy feathers of neck very thick and reacliin-; 

 high up the neck. Head, occiput, and upper half of hind-neck very pale greenish blue ; 

 lower half of hind-neck pale orange-yellow. Naked skin on lower sides of neck deej) 

 crim?on, fading into cherry-red on the edges. Legs very stout and short ; body set 

 very low on the legs and very bulky, giving the bird the exact shape Dhwrnis 

 elephantopus must have had. 



" Ilah. Probably Eastern German New Guinea ^ 



" Named in honour of Dr. Philip Lutley Sclater." 



14. CASUArxius PAPUANUS Schleg. Westerinann's Cassowary. (Plate XXXIV.) 



1871. Casnarius heiinetti (uou Gould, 1857) Sclileg., Nederl. Tijdsclir. Dierk. iv. p. 53. 

 1871. Casuarius pcipuunus Sciileg. (es Roseubei'g MS.), t. c. p. 51 ; 



1873. Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Struthiones, p. 11 (Andai) ; Roseul)., .Jourii. f. Oni. p. ."390; 

 1875. Roseub., Reist. Geelvinkb. pp. 81, 117,111, pi. 17 ; Salvad. Aim. ^Iiis. Civ. Gen. vii. p. 717 

 (Andai) ; 



1878. Rosenberg, Malay. Arcliipel, p. 563; A. B. Meyer, Jouru. L Orn. pp. 200, 203; 



1879. Salvad., Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xxxiv. p. 210, pi. ii. fig. 8 (head) ; 



1882. Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 4li, no. 7 ; id., Oni. J*ap. e Mol. iii. p. I'J.J : 



1894. Schalow, Jonru. f. Orn. p. 20 (egg). 



1871. Casuarius kaupi Sclat. (nou Rosenberg, 1861), P. Z. S. p. 627 (.Maiisliiara) ; 



1873. Sclat., P. Z. S. pp. 147-150, pi. ix. (Mansiuam) ; 



1895. Salvad., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 599; 



1896. Oust., Nouv. Arch. Mus. (3) viii. p. 265. 



1872. Casuarius papuensis Sclater, P. Z. S. pp. 119, 150. 



1874. Casuarius westennanni Scl., P. Z. S. p. 248; id., Ibis, p. 417 (footnote) ; 



1875. Scl., P. Z. S. pp. 85, 87, 380, pi. xix. ; 



1877. Gould, B. New Guinea, v. pi. 15 ; 



1878. A. B. Meyer, Journ. f. Orn. pp. 200-203. 



1874. ? Casuarius sp. A. B. Meyer, Sitzber. k. Ak. Wiss. Wien, Ixix. p. 216. 



Native names: the I'olluwiug are given l)y Rosenberg ; but it is, of course, doubtfLd whethei- 

 they all apply strictly and only to this species, or to several, or whether tliey are nieaut for any 

 form of Cassowary : " Mswaar " at Andai, " Nhamdia " at Ilatam, " Wonggr " at Dorei. 



Adult. Bill short and pointed ; casque low and much flattened posteriorly, so as to 

 make it quite triangular in shape. Face behind eye, and head white. Nape, throat, 

 and fore-neck deep blue. Hind-neck scarlet. Anterior half of naked lower sides of 

 neck livid magenta-purple, posterior half scarlet. 



In the place where in the Casuarius casuarius and C. umippendiculatus groups 



' There is, however, nu certainty about its home. 



