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position, of another leg, the portrait would have been still more 
life-like. 
Our second illustration represents the head and neck-wattles 
of a Cassowary, which the author calls Casuarius Becarrii, so 
named after his friend and fellow-traveller, Dr. Beceari, who 
discovered it. It seems to us, however, that this cannot be 
Casuarius Beccarii, Sclater* (which is one of the double-wattled 
Cassowaries having a median throat-wattle divided at its 
extremity into two small lobes), but must be identical with 
Casuarius tricarunculatus, described by Dr. Beccari from Salwatti, 
New Guinea.+ The absence of an ‘‘Index” to the work before 
us is much to be regretted, for without it it is impossible to 
discover and compare the various passages relating to a given 
species which are scattered throughout eight hundred pages. It 
* See Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1875, pp. 87, 527, pl. 58; and Harting, 
‘ Ostriches,’ p. 107, and Preface to second edition, p. xvi. 
+ Ann. Mus. Genov., vii., p. 717. 
