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DR. SCLATER ON THE STRUTHIOUS BIRDS 



1. Casuarius galeatus. (PI. LXXI.) 



Strut hio casuarius, Linn. 

 Casuarius emeu. Lath. 

 Casuarius ffaleatus, Vieill. 



The true locality of this Cassowary (which is usually supposed to be found in New 

 Guinea) I believe to be Ceram' — specimens in the Leyden Museum having been col- 

 lected in that island by Forsten. We have a nearly adult male of this species, pur- 

 chased in 1859, at present in the Menagerie. 



2. Casuarius bicarunculatus. (PI. LXXIII.) 

 Casuarius bicarunculatus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1860, pp. 211, 248. 



Under this name I distinguish a young Cassowary now living in the Gardens, which 

 we have lately received in exchange from the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam. It 

 presents the general outward characteristics of the immature Casuarius galeatus ; but, 

 instead of having the neck-wattles joined at base, as in that species (fig. a), it has them 

 perfectly separated, and the space between them occupied by the continuation down- 



i'ig. a. 



Fig. h. 



' Mr. Wallace says (' Ibis,' 1 861, p. 286), " the Cassowary occurs rather plentifully over the whole interior of 

 Ceram .- but I was never able to obtain or even to see a specimen." 



