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blue; face-wattles long, broad and thin, very bright dark blue. Chin dark blue; 
throat and a small part of hind-neck dark dull olive-yellow; fore-neck and rest of 
hind-neck dark golden-yellow. A golden-yellow transverse patch on occiput. Naked 
lower sides of neck dark orange-yellow. Plumage black ; wattle dirty mauve. Size 
very large. Height from casque to ground about 5 feet 6 inches when walking, 6 feet 
8 inches when erect. 
Total length about 1655 mm., bill from gape 133, tarsus 280, claw of inner toe 84. 
(After Salvadori, /. ¢.) 
Young (half-grown). Casque brown; plumage yellowish brown; neck and naked 
lower sides of neck pale yellowish flesh-colour, Head, chin, and occiput dirty bluish 
green ; legs yellowish. : 
Chick. Head and neck uniform rufous; throat buff; body creamy buff, with five 
distinct brown longitudinal bands on the body and a line of broken brown patches along 
the thighs. 
Hab. Salwatty and opposite coast of N.W. New Guinea (Threshold Bay, Tangion- 
Ram, Sorong). 
The first communication referring to the One-wattled Cassowary is the following 
editorial note in ‘ The Ibis’ for 1860, p. 193:—* Mr. Blyth in his last letters (dated 
Calcutta, Jan. 8th & 21st) speaks of an apparently new species of Cassowary (Casuarius) 
in the aviary of the Babu Rajendra Mullick of Calcutta: ‘It has a yellow throat, a 
single yellow throat-wattle, and a long strip of naked yellow skin down each side of the 
neck, In its present (first) plumage, it is of a much lighter colour than the young 
of the Common Cassowary of the same size, two of which are kept along with it; 
and from the size of the legs, it is easy to perceive that when full-grown it is a 
much smaller species.’ ” 
In the ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,’ Blyth first published the 
name :— 
“ Casuarius unappendiculatus, nobis, n.s., from its peculiarity of having but a 
single pendulous caruncle in front of the neck, Specimen apparently more than 
half-grown, and much paler in the colouring of its plumage than specimens of the 
same age of the common C. galeatus, two fine examples of which are associated with 
it in the same paddock. In lieu of the two bright red caruncles of the latter, the new 
species has but a single small oblong or elongate oval yellow caruncle, and the bright 
colours of the naked portion of the neck are differently disposed. The cheeks and 
throat are smalt-blue, below which is a large wrinkled yellow space in front of the 
neck, terminating in front in the oval button-like caruncle, and its lower portion being 
continued round behind, while on the sides of the neck the yellow naked portion is 
continued down to its base, the bordering feathers more or less covering and concealing 
this lateral stripe of unfeathered skin ; on the hind part of the neck the bare yellow 
skin is not tumous and corrugated as in the Common Cassowary, where also this part 
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