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the throat-wattles are attached there is sometimes a small round knob of the same 

 colour as the rest of the fore-neck. Plumage black ; feathers long and more silky 

 than in the species previously described, those over the tail being some 12 to 

 10 inches long and very thick, forming a sort of pendent train. Legs brown, bill and 

 casque black. 



Total length (according to Salvadori) about 1 m. 400 mm., tarsus 260 mm., bill from 

 gape 120 mm., inner claw 78 mm. 



Young (full-grown). Plumage brown, all colours on naked parts duller, the blue 

 being of a dull leaden shade, and the red replaced by orange-yellow. 



Yoiniq (half-grown). Plumage dark chestnut-brown or bay-brown, each feather 

 crossed by several strongly defined black bars. Head and neck not bare. 



Chick. Uniform daik brown, with two or three narrow longitudinal white bands on 

 the body, and several similar lines on the neck. 



This bird inhabits the Arfak Peninsula, and has been said to come also from .Tobi, 

 but this is not supported by any evidence. 



Eosenberg discovered this Cassowary near Andai, in the Arfak Peninsula of New 

 Guinea, where it is called " Mswaar " or " Meswaar '" by the Papuans. When first 

 mentioning it, in 1871, Schlegel called it C. hennetti, but stated that it differed from 

 the latter in the coloration of the upperside of the neck, which, however, he did not 

 consider of any importance, and remarked that Rosenberg believed it to be a new 

 species which he wished to call Casuarivs jMj^uonns. 



Rosenberg tells us that the first glance at the type of his C. papuaims, which was 

 shot by his hunter Aclimat (Achmed), convinced him that his former belief that the 

 Cassowaries of New Guinea were the same as those from Salwatti, the C. itnappendi- 

 cidatus, was erroneous. Rosenberg further states that the adult female was shot 

 during the breeding-season, which lasts from February to April, and that the nest 

 consists of a depression on the ground, lined with leaves. He had all this information, 

 however, from natives, and he repeats the old fable with which he also treated us when 

 describing the Ceram Cassowary, that some eggs (five, he says) are placed in the nest, 

 others (two) outside, so as to serve as food for the chicks, and that they are hatched in 

 28 days. Of the eggs he says that they are in every respect like those of C. casuarius. 

 The adult bird shot by his hunter was at first only wounded, and attacked the man, who 

 had not a little trouble in keeping it off, and subsequently killed it with his hunting- 

 knife. Bruijn sent skins to Europe said to be from Andai and Emberbaki, or Amber- 

 baki. Laglaize purchased one from Amberbaki, and A. B. Meyer obtained it near 

 ])orei. Beccari says it occurs also on the mountains of Arfak, where he saw foot- 

 prints of a Cassowary at a considerable elevation. 



The type of C. westermanni belongs certainly to C. j^apuanus. Sclater informs us 

 that it was said by the missionary who sent it to come from Munsinam (=Mansinam), 



