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origin, I made a careful examination of the specimen in company 
with the Superintendent, and at once decided that it was not a 
Mooruk (Casuarius bennetti), although closely allied to that species 
in form and structure. It, in fact, more nearly resembles Westerman’s 
Cassowary (C. westermanni, mihi, P. Z.S8. 1874, p. 248*), but is 
very differently coloured in the naked parts of the throat, as will be 
seen by the drawings which I now exhibit. 
In C. westermanni (Plate XIX.) the throat is blue and the hinder 
part of the neck deep orange-red. In the new species, which I pro- 
pose to call C. picticollis (Plate XVIII.) the middle of the throat is 
red, and the hinder part of the neck bright blue. There are, besides, 
minor differences, which will be evident on comparing the two 
drawings. Now, so far as I know, these colours in the naked parts 
of the Cassowaries are quite constant ; and I can hardly doubt there- 
fore that we have here to deal with different species. In C. bennetti, 
of which several specimens have lived in our Gardens, the whole 
throat and hind neck are alike blue. The three non-carunculated 
Cassowaries known to me may therefore be diagnosed as follows :— 
1. C. dennetti: gula et cervice postica ceruleis. 
2. C. westermanni: gula ceerulea, cervice postica rubra. 
3. C. picticollis: gula rubra, cervice postica cerulea. 
In order to settle, if possible, the question whether C. papuanus of 
Rosenberg (a fourth described species of this section) is really dif- 
ferent from C. westermanni, I requested Mr. Smit, when he visited 
Leyden in August last, to bring me a coloured figure of the head and 
neck of the typical specimen of that species in the Leyden Museum. 
I now exhibit Mr. Smit’s drawing, from which it would seem 
that, although it is quite evident that the two species are very nearly 
related, unless the naked parts have been wrongly coloured in the 
stuffed specimen, C. papuanus may be, as politely suggested by 
Schlegel + ‘suivant les principes des amateurs d’ornithologie,”’ differ- 
ent from, althoughit is certainly very nearly allied to, C. westermanni. 
This may well be the case, if it should turn out, as suggested by Dr. 
Meyer (Sitz. Akad. Wien, Ixix. p. 217), that C. westermanni is the 
Cassowary of the island of Jobie, and C. papuanus that of the main- 
land of North New Guinea. C. picticollis comes, as we know, from 
the extreme south of New Guinea, and C. bennett: from New Britain. 
Besides C. picticollis we have recently received two other impor- 
tant additions to the series of living Cassowaries—namely, a young 
example of C. uniappendiculatus, presented by Capt. Moresby, of 
H.M.S. ‘ Basilisk,’ in August last{, and a young Australian Casso- 
wary (C. australis), just received from the Marquis of Normanby, 
lately Governor of Queensland. 
The former bird, as Dr. Bennett tells me, was obtained by Captain 
Moresby from the natives at Cornwallis Island, in Torres Straits, 
but was stated to have been originally brought from the adjacent 
* Figured, P. Z. 8. 1872, pl. ix., as C. kaupi. 
t Mus. d. Pays-Bas, Struthiones, p. 12 (1873). 
t See P. Z. S. 1874, p. 495. 
