140 HON. W. ROTHSCHILD ON THE GENUS CASUARIUS. 
the throat-wattles are attached there is sometimes a small round knob of the same 
colour as the rest of the fore-neck. Plumage black; feathers long and more silky 
than in the species previously described, those over the tail being some 12 to 
15 inches long and very thick, forming a sort of pendent train. Legs brown, bill and 
casque black. ; 
Total length (according to Salvadori) about 1 m. 400 mm., tarsus 260 mm., bill from 
gape 120 mm., inner claw 78 mm. 
Young (full-grown). Plumage brown, all colours on naked parts duller, the blue 
being of a dull leaden shade, and the red replaced by orange-yellow. 
Young (half-grown). Plumage dark chestnut-brown or bay-brown, each feather 
crossed by several strongly defined black bars. Head and neck not bare. 
Chick. Uniform dark brown, with two or three narrow longitudinal white bands on 
the body, and several similar lines on the neck. 
This bird inhabits the Arfak Peninsula, and has been said to come also from Jobi, 
but this is not supported by any evidence. 
Rosenberg discovered this Cassowary near Andai, in the Arfak Peninsula of New 
Guinea, where it is called “ Mswaar” or ‘‘ Meswaar” by the Papuans. When first 
mentioning it, in 1871, Schlegel called it C. bennetti, but stated that it differed from 
the latter in the coloration of the upperside of the neck, which, however, he did not 
consider of any importance, and remarked that Rosenberg believed it to be a new 
species which he wished to call Casuarius papuanus. 
Rosenberg tells us that the first glance at the type of his C. papwanus, which was 
shot by his hunter Achmat (Achmed), convinced him that his former belief that the 
Cassowaries of New Guinea were the same as those from Salwatti, the C. wunappendi- 
culatus, was erroneous. Rosenberg further states that the adult female was shot 
during the breeding-season, which lasts from February to April, and that the nest 
consists of a depression on the ground, lined with leaves. He had all this information, 
however, from natives, and he repeats the old fable with which he also treated us when 
describing the Ceram Cassowary, that some eggs (five, he says) are placed in the nest, 
others (two) outside, so as to serve as food for the chicks, and that they are hatched in 
28 days. Of the eggs he says that they are in every respect like those of C. casuarius. 
The adult bird shot by his hunter was at first only wounded, and attacked the man, who 
had not a little trouble in keeping it off, and subsequently killed it with his hunting- 
knife. Bruijn sent skins to Europe said to be from Andai and Emberbaki, or Amber- 
baki. Laglaize purchased one from Amberbaki, and A. B. Meyer obtained it near 
Dorei. Beccari says it occurs also on the mountains of Arfak, where he saw foot- 
prints of a Cassowary at a considerable elevation. 
The type of C. westermanni belongs certainly to C. papuanus. Sclater informs us 
that it was said by the missionary who sent it to come from Munsinam (= Mansinam), 
