Zoo Notes 
protection, although the peacocks, also in- 
habitants of hot climates, seem to be much 
more hardy. he courting display of the 
argus 1s even more remarkable than the 
peacock’s, for when showing off to the hen 
he expands his great wings and brings 
them forward so as to meet in front and 
form a huge fan before his head, this being 
the best way of exhibiting the numerous 
“eyes” with which they are 
decorated. 
Photo by W. P. Dando, F.Z.S., Regent's Park. i 
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first described by Blyth, nearly fifty years 
ago, from a specimen kept in the menagerie 
of Babu Rajendra Mullick, a great collector 
of animals im Calcutta. 
The taste for keeping live 
has greatly fallen off among the 
of India of late years, but many 
animals, cassowaries of one sort or another 
included, are still imported. Jassowaries 
are amusing pets when young, and the 
creatures 
natives 
foreign 
EASTERN ONE-WATTLED CASSOWARY. 
THE most noticeable distinctions between 
the different kinds of Casso- 
waries are to be found in the 
colour of the bare skin of the 
neck. In the present species (Caswarius 
unappendiculatus) this is bright orange- 
yellow, and, with the fact that the wattle 
at the lower part of the neck is single, 
easily distinguishes it from the blue-necked 
-and double-wattled Common Cassowary 
(C. galeatus). The one-wattled species was 
One=Wattled 
Cassowary. 
present writer has seen them allowed to 
run loose about a dealer’s yard, where they 
would le down to sleep at night close to 
the native servants. Hven when young, 
however, the cassowary shows signs of 
the fierce temper which renders it, in most 
cases, positively dangerous when adult even 
to human beimgs. One of the above young 
birds was offended by the ais of a fawn- 
coloured European turkey which used to 
parade about the yard, and with one kick 
