HON. W. KOTHSCHILD ON THE GENUS CASUARIUS. 14G 



Nothing is kuowu of this form except one living individual in the Zoological Garden 

 of Berlin. My original preliminary description of it (/. c.) is as follows : — 



" This bird bi'ars tiie same relationship to C. ijicticollis that C. papuanus edwardai 

 does to C. paimanus. Tlie throat and liind-neck are deep indigo-blue. Occiput pule 

 greenish blue. A small round bhu k wattle on the fore-neck. Lower sides of neck 

 dark crimson. Casque and plumage similar to those of C. picticollis." 



Tliis form is named m honour of Dr. Heck, Director of the Zoological Garden of 

 Berlin, who kindly permitted Mr. Keulemans to make a drawing of the bird. 



19. Casu.arils be.nnetti Gould. The Mooruk. (Plate XXXIX.) 



1857. Casuarius beuneiti Gould, P. Z. S. p. 269, Aves, pi. 129 ; 



1858. Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) i. p. 299 ; 



1858. J. E. Gray, P. Z. S. p. 271, Aves, pi. 144 (egg) ; 



1859. Bennett, P. Z. S. p. 32; GouUl, B. Austr., Suppl. pis. 72, 73; Sel., Ibi.s, pp. 212, 235 ; 

 18G0. Bartictt, P. Z. S. p. 205, Aves, pi. 1G2 (egg); Scl., P. Z. S. p. 210; Bennett, Gatii. 



Naturalist in Aiistralas. p. 213, pi. iv. ; 

 1862. Scl., Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix. p. 359, pi. Ixii. ; Schleg., Jaarb. zool. Genootscli. Nat. .\it. 



Mag. p. 198 ; 

 18G3. Scl., P. Z. S. p. 234 (incubation), p. 518 (descr. oF pullus), pi. xlii.; Jouan, Mem. Ac. Soc. 



Nat. (Micrb. ix. p. 323 ; 

 18G4. Scl., P. Z. S. p. 271 (successfully reared) ; 

 1865. Gould, Handb. B, Austr. ii. p. 5G1 ; 

 18GG. Seldcg., Zool. Gart. vii. p. 178; 

 1871. G. R. Gray, Hand-list, iii. p. 2, no. 9850; 

 1873. Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Strid/iiones, p. 4; Beuu. & Sclat., P. Z. S. p. 519 (corr. of locality) ; 



Garrod, P. Z. S. pp. 470, 614 (anatomy) ; 



1875. Scl., P. Z. S. pp. 85, 87; Scl., Rep. Brit. Assoc, p. 112; 



1876. Ramsay, P. Z. S. p. 122; 



1879. Scl., P. Z. S. p. 5; 



1880. Layard, Ibis, ]). 303; Powell, P. Z. S. p. 493; 



1881. Salvad., Mem. R. Ac. Se. Tor. (2) xxxiv. p. 214, pi. ii. fig. 10 (head) ; 



1882. Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Geu. xviii. p. 415, uo. 9; id., Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 501 ; 



1891. Evans, Ibis, p. 84 (period of incubat.); Sliarpe, Cat. Ostcol. Spec. R. C. Surg. iii. p. 438; 



1892. Ost, Zeitschr. Ool. pp. 15, 91; Schalow, ibid. p. 11 ; 

 1894. Id., Jonrn. f. O. p. 20 (egg) : 



1896. Oust., Nuuv. Arch. Mus. Paris, p. 256. 



1869. Cassowary from the Solomon Islands (error!), Hutton, Ibis, p. 352. 



Native name : '' Moornp " iu New Britain (corrupted: "Mooruk"). 



Plumage black. Bill long, arched and pointed. Casque high, sharply depressed 

 posteriorly, the various ridges being sharply defined. Back of head, occiput, and 



