LIST OF PLATES 



I CASUARIUS UNIAPPENDICULATUS, Blyth. (juv.). From 

 an example in the British Museum of Natural History. 

 By permission of the Director. .... Frontispiece 



This plate should be compared with that opposite p. 22, which 

 represents a cassowary with two wattles probably an immature 

 Casuarius galeatus, Vieill.y^r that is the species which is believed 

 to have been brought alive to Europe by the Dutch in 1597. An 

 immature example of that species was not available for repro- 

 duction. 



II. ABRIS DES WVNDERBAREN VOGELS EME. From the 

 fifth edition of Erste Schiffart in die orientalische 

 Indien so die hollandische Schiff im Martio 1595 

 aussgefahren vnd im Augusto 1597 wiederkommen 

 verzicht . . . Durch Levinvm Hvlsivm. Editio Quinta. 

 Getruckt zu Franckfurt am Mayn durch Hartmann 

 Palthenium in Verlegung der Hulfischen. Anno 

 M.DC.xxv., From a copy of the book in the British 

 Museum. By permission of the Keeper of Printed 

 Books p. 22 



III. THE MASKED OR BLUE-FACED GANNET (Sula cyanops, 

 S. per sonata). From an example in the Royal Scottish 

 Museum. By permission of the Director. . . . p. 35 



In the Manuel Ornithologie (1828) Lesson writes: ' Le Fou 

 Manche de Velours, " manga de velado " des navigateurs portugais , 

 que Von dit etre le fou de Hassan, est de moitie' plus petit. Ce 

 serait done une race distincte? torn. II. p. 375. And in the Traite 

 ff Ornithologie the same author amplifies thus what he has 

 written: ''Fou Manche de Velours; Sula dactylatra, Less. Zool. 

 de la Cog., Texte, part 2, p. 494. Esphe confondue avec lefou de 

 Bassan adulte; est le manga de Velado des Portugais. Plumage 

 blancpur; ailes et queue noires ; bee cornt ; tarses jaunes ; la base 

 du bee cerclte d'une peau nue, qui Attend sur la gorge en forme 

 de demi-cercle, Femelle : Grise. die de f Ascension, les mers 

 chaudes des Tropiques? Texte, p. 60 1. 



