124 HON. W. ROTHSCHILD ON THE GENUS CASUARIUS. 
1876. Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 119 (life-history) ; Rams., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 
i. p. 186; 
1877. Rams., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, ii. pp. 196 (distribution), 376 (woodcuts of head) ; 
Harting, Ostr. & Ostr. Farming, p. 95; Salv. & Scl., Ibis, p. 827 ; 
1881. Salvad., Mem. R. Ac. Se. Torino, (2) xxxiv. p. 192, pl. i. fig. 3 (head) ; 
1882. Salvad., Orn. Pap. e Moluce. iii. p. 473 ; 
1888. Rams., Tabul. List Austr. B. p. 19 (distribution) ; 
1889. Lumholtz, Among Cannibals, pp. 98, 99; 
1890. North, Nests & Eggs Austr. B. p. 294, pl. xv. (egg) ; 
1891. Sharpe, Cat. Osteol. Spec. R. Coll. Surg. iii. p. 439 ; 
1892. Schalow, Zeitschr. f. Ool. p. 11; 
1894. Schalow, Journ. f. Orn. p. 24; 
1895. Salvad., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 594; 
1896. Meston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, x. pp. 59-64. 
1866. Casuarius johnsonii F. Miiller, Australasian of Dec. 15th (ef. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, 
pp. 241, 242) ; 
1867. Carron & Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. pp. 473, 474; Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 
p. 482; Diggles, Orn. Austr. pl. & text ; 
1868. A. Newton, Ibis, p. 348 (critical note on Diggles) ; 
1869. Krefft, Ibis, p. 348 (maintains that johnsoni is correct name) ; 
1870. A. Newton, Ibis, p. 120 (contends with others that the name australis is to be used). 
1873. ? Casuarius regalis (nomen nudum) Rosenberg, Journ. f. Orn. p. 390. 
Adult. Casque very high and massive, compressed laterally, deep brown; bill long 
and stout, black. Next to C. casuarius sclateri, the largest of the forms of Casuarius 
casuarius. Plumage black. Sides of head, occiput, and upper hind-neck pale greenish 
blue; lower hind-neck scarlet, running a little into the blue of upper portion. Chin, 
throat, and fore-neck deep indigo-blue. Lower naked sides of neck mixed red and 
blue, giving a purple hue. ‘Two wattles on fore-neck very large, deep pinkish red, 
mottled with paler pink, blue at base. : 
Young (quarter-grown). Head and hind-neck chestnut rufous. Chin, throat, and 
fore-neck densely covered with short downy feathers of a brownish-buff colour. Rest 
of body clayey brownish yellow mixed with dark rufous. 
Young (two-thirds grown). Plumage brown. Head and occiput dull pale blue; 
lower hind-neck orange; fore-neck leaden blue; lower naked sides of neck blue, 
mixed with livid purple. 
Chick. Head and hind-neck pale rufous; fore-neck yellowish buff; rest of body 
yellowish buff. From base of neck to end of tail along the back run three broad 
longitudinal black bands, variegated with rufous, and each about seven-eighths of 
an inch wide. On the sides are three irregular wavy black bands extending from the 
shoulder-girdle down the sides to the beginning of the metatarsus. 
Hab. Northern Queensland. 
I have kept the adult female, described above, since 1890: she laid some 40 or 50 
eggs at Tring, and has now lived nearly two years in the Society’s Gardens. 
