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few words to add about a species which we have not yet received, 
and which appears to be also hitherto unrecognized. 
When at Genoa last year the Marquis Doria called my attention 
to a stuffed Cassowary in the Museo Civico, which had been obtained 
by Dr. E. Beccari in Wokan, the most northern of the Aroo 
Islands*. By my friend’s kindness I am now able to exhibit co- 
loured sketches of this bird and also of its head and neck (see figures 
1 and 2, p. 86). By these it will be seen at once that this species 
belongs to the section which contains C. galeatus, but from the 
highly elevated crest (see fig. 1) would seem to be more nearly 
allied to C. australis. The neck-wattles, however, are decidedly 
of a different structure, there being, in fact, only one broad central 
wattle, which is slightly divided at its termination (see fig. 2). Now 
the only Cassowary yet known to us from the Aroo Islands is C. 
bicarunculatus—a very different species. I cannot, therefore, doubt 
that we have here again to deal with a new species of the genus, 
which I propose, with the Marquis Doria’s sanction, to designate 
after its discoverer, 
CASUARIUS BECCARII, Sp. nov. 
C. similis C. australi et crista pari modo elevata: sed caruncula 
cervicis una media, ad apicem divisa. 
Hab. Wokan, inss. Aroensium (Beccari). 
Mus. civit. Genoensis. 
The colours of the naked parts of the head and neck, as given in a 
drawing which M. Doria informs me has been copied from a speci- 
men in spirits in good preservation, would appear to show that in 
this respect also C. beccarit comes nearest to C. australis t. 
To conclude, I exhibit a revised table which summarizes our pre- 
sent knowledge of the Cassowaries and their distribution. 
Indew specierum Generis Casuarii. 
a. Casside lateraliter compressa; appendicula cervicis aut duplici 
aut divisa. 
. C. galeatus, ex ins. Ceram. 
. C. beccarii, ex ins. Aroensi Wokan. 
. C. australis, ex Australia bor. 
. C. bicarunculatus, ex inss. Aroensibus. 
Be Oboe 
6, Casside transversim compressa; apppendicula cervicis unica. 
5. C. uniappendiculatus, ex Papua. 
. 
ce. Casside transversim compressa ; appendicula cervicis nulla, 
. C. papuanus, ex Papua boreali. 
. C. westermanni, ex ins. Papuana Jobie (?). 
. C. picticollis, ex Papua meridionali. 
. C. bennetti, ex Noy. Britann. 
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* See Mr. Wallace’s Map, Travels in EB. I. Arch. ii. p. 219. 
t Figured -P. Z. 8. 1872, pl. xxvi. This specimen (the only adult example 
known) is now in the Cambridge University Museum, to which it was presented 
by Lord Walden. 
e ve large figure of the head of this species in Gould’s B. Austr. Suppl. 
pl 70. 
