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happened to be at Oak Hills, in the same district, during one 
of Mr K. Broadbent’s (the able collector attached to the 
Queensland Museum) visits. JI understand together they 
found a Cassowary’s nest in September 1886 containing 
3 fresh eggs. The nesting place was merely a hollow on a 
dry, stony ridge in the centre of a dense scrub. 
Mr Lumbholtz, in his fascinating book “Among Cannibals,” 
referring to the Cassowary under date 6th October (1882), 
says :—“ Natives brought me 2 eggs and a young bird just 
hatched. Eggs, 3 in number, are frequently laid at long 
intervals. In this instance there was the bird just hatched, 
one egg almost hatched, and another egg the contents of 
which could easily be blown. Thus we see that the young 
are not hatched all at one time, and that the female must 
therefore take care of them while the male bird is sitting.” 
As in the Emu, so in the Cassowary, upon the male 
devolves the task of incubating the eggs. The laying season 
may be said to be from the end of August or the beginning 
of September to October, and the period of incubation 
probably seven weeks or over. 
I do not recollect ever seeing a published description of 
the young of Caswarius australis, About the end of January 
1891 Isawin Melbourne four young Cassowaries (presumably 
about three or four months old) that were captured in the 
Johnston district of Northern Queensland. Down the back 
was a broad, dark stripe, succeeded by two others on either 
side, then by smaller ones (two or three) more or less 
indistinct or broken as they approached the stomach, the 
interstices and stomach being dirty brown or yellowish- 
white; wattles on face and neck white, and feet also whitish; 
bill also whitish, but upper mandible bluish-black, with 
greenish tinge before the eyes. Eyes steel blue, transforming 
intermittently, in the daylight, into a greenish shade. 
