120 HON. W. ROTHSCHILD ON THE GENUS CASUARIUS. 
A most magnificent series of this bird was procured on the Fly River by D’Albertis, 
and a number of woodcuts of the heads and necks of them are given in the Annals of 
the Genoa Museum and in Count Salvadori’s splendid monograph of the genus 
Casuarius, and a coloured figure, from a sketch of D’Albertis, on plate 1. (fig. 4) of 
the same work. 
Some eggs from near Port Moresby, which I received together with a chick, are 
covered with glossy glazed granulations, which are not at all connected, but stand 
more or less separated from each other. They are bright green, and measure 150: 103, 
146: 100, 146: 97, and 146: 95 mm. 
4, CASUARIUS CASUARIUS SALVADORII Oust. Salvadori’s Cassowary. (Plate XXIV.) 
1875 ?. Casuarius tricarunculatus Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii. p. 717 (Warbusi) ; 
1878. Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xi. pp. 419, 420; 
1881. Salvad., Mem. R. Ac. Se. Torino, (2) xxxiv. p. 184; 
1882. Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xviii. p. 413 ; 
1882. Salvad., Orn. Pap. e Moluce. iii. p. 473 ; ae 
1895. Salvad., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 591 ; 
1896. Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, (3) vill. p. 263 (type in Mus.). 
1878. (Feb. 23rd.) Casuarius salvadorii Oustalet, Bull. Assoc. Se. de France, Bull. no. 539, p. 350 
(“ Warbusi ”’) ; 
1878. Scl., Proc. Zool. Soc Lond. pp. 213, 214, fig. 213 (Wandammen; head and neck) ; A. B. 
Meyer, Journ. f. Orn. p. 202; Salvad. Ann, Mus. Civ. Genova, xii. p. 420; 
1879. Salvad., Ibis, p. 105; 
1881. Salvad., Mem. R. Ac. Se. Torino, (2) xxxiv. p. 204, pl. i. fig. 5 ; 
1882. Salvad., Orn. Papuas. e Moluce. iii. p. 488 (footnote) ; 
1895. Salvad., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 595. 
1878. Casuarius altijugus Scl., Nature, xvii. p. 375 (Wandammen) ; 
1879. Salvad., Ibis, p. 105. 
Adult. Plumage black; casque high, brownish black; bill thick, long, and not 
pointed. Head and upper part of hind-neck pale greenish blue, rest of hind-neck 
scarlet. Naked lower sides of neck blue anteriorly, purplish crimson posteriorly. 
Chin, throat, and fore-neck deep blue. Wattles small and widely separated, base and 
inner half blue, rest dark fleshy pink. Total length about 13 m., tarsus 300 to 
316 mm., bill from gape 150 to 190 mm., inner claw about 80 mm. 
Chick. Head and neck rufous; rest of body creamy white or pale buff, with three 
longitudinal dorsal black bands variegated with rufous. The three lateral stripes 
along the flanks and thighs are broken up into a number of irregular brown spots 
and patches. 
Hab. North-west New Guinea. 
Casuarius casuarius salvadorii was originally described by Oustalet and Sclater as 
C, salvadorii and C. altijugus respectively, from skins obtained by Laglaize near 
Wandammen on the south-west coast of Geelvink Bay, in North-west New Guinea ; 
