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and on face-wattles. Rest of fore- and hind-neck and naked lower sides of neck deep 
bright orange, without any red. hroat-wattle blue. On the occiput a very wide and 
large transverse patch of bright orange. Face-wattles large and very thick, balloon- 
shaped when inflated by the bird during anger. Bill short and thick. Casque low, 
compressed laterally, and not flattened posteriorly or hardly so. Plumage black and 
coarse; legs brownish grey; iris pale brown. Build slender and tall, but not so tall as 
either C. wnappendiculatus or C. wu. oceipitalis. 
Young and chick unknown. 
This form differs both from @. wnappendiculatus and C. wu. occipitalis in its slender 
build and paler blue colouring, but principally in the uniform orange of the neck, the 
laterally compressed and posteriorly not flattened casque, and in the thick swollen 
face-wattles, which are very similar to those of the following species, Caswarius philipt. 
Hab. German New Guinea. 
This form is known from one individual living at present in the Zoological Garden 
of Berlin, where’ Mr. Keulemans made the accompanying picture. It is most interesting 
to find the one-wattled group of Cassowaries extending to Kaiser-Wilhelmsland, and I 
have no doubt whatever that my aurantiacus is a very good subspecies. 
My original description (J. ¢.) is as follows :— 
‘Face, cheeks, and occiput pale sky-blue ; throat dark blue. Occipital patch, fore- 
neck, hind-neck, and lower sides of the neck deep reddish orange. Casque horny 
green, and much more compressed laterally than in C. wnappendiculatus. Long cheek- 
wattles absent, but the sides of the face distended as in C. philipi.” 
12. CASUARIUS UNAPPENDICULATUS RUFOTINCTUS, subsp. nov. Red-tinted One-wattled 
Cassowary. 
Casque greenish horn-colour, compressed laterally and not depressed posteriorly ; 
plumage black, mixed with brown, as the bird is not quite in full adult plumage, though 
otherwise in full colour. Head, face, occiput, and upper hind-neck bright pale blue ; 
on the occiput is a large patch of orange-brown. Chin and throat deep indigo-blue, 
which colour runs down the centre of the fore-neck in a triangular band to the base of 
the wattle, where it is about 1 inch wide. Wattle blue. Sides of fore-neck orange- 
scarlet, changing to crimson when excited and the throat distended. Lower naked 
sides of neck deep crimson, with a narrow anterior yellow border. 
Hab. unknown. 
I had this bird as a chick in striped plumage, and it was reared as a pet at ‘Tring, 
but since it has been in this Society’s Gardens (15 months) it has come into colour and 
is very different from any other form of C. unappendiculatus. It is now 3 years old, 
