142 HON. W. ROTHSCHILD ON THE GENUS CASUARIUS. 
Juv. (three-fourths grown). Casque not yet developed. Crown of head and face 
black. Occiput dirty brownish white. Fore-neck and upper half of hind-neck dull 
blue. Large irregular patch between ear-hole and angle of gape buffy pink. Lower 
half of hind-neck rosy salmon-red. Centre of naked lower sides of neck scarlet-mauve, 
bordered with a colour mixed orange and cherry-rose. Plumage brown, curiously 
variegated with black. 
Hab. Low country of N.W. Dutch New Guinea. 
My living specimen performed as follows :— 
It first extends its neck horizontally, then contracts it short and bends it, at the 
same time inflating it, and then makes a series of at least twelve short and deep 
grunting notes. Sometimes, when very angry, it, like other Cassowaries, spreads the 
feathers of the back and hind-quarters out and snarls viciously. 
The young three-quarter grown bird described above is not yet old enough to 
perform these antics. 
Milne-Edwards’s Cassowary was first described by Oustalet from a male killed 
near Dorei, and brought to Paris by Messrs. Raffray and Maindron. ‘The differences 
noticed by M. Oustalet are principally in the form of the helmet and the 
coloration of the naked parts of the head and neck. ‘The latter are, indeed, 
very conspicuous; while the form of the helmet is more likely to be an individual 
character. 
I cannot believe that C. edwards is ‘‘identical” with C. papuanus; but if it is a 
subspecies of the latter, then the two forms must inhabit different areas, and it is 
very likely that one of them frequents the lowlands, while the other lives among the 
hills, 
An egg laid by a living bird in my possession has the network of granulations rather 
flat, like those of C. papuanus in the British Museum, It is rather pointed and seems 
abnormally small, measuring only 125 : 86 mm. 
16. Casuarius Lori# Rothsch. Loria’s Cassowary. (Plate XX XVIII.) 
1895. Casuarius picticollis Salvad. (nec Sclater), Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 600 (description !). 
1898. Casuarius lorie Rothsch., Novit. Zool. p. 513. 
1899. Id., Bull. B. O. C. viii. p. lvi (June 21st); id., P. Z. S. p. 775 (June 20th; appeared 
Oct. Ist). 
Adult. Bill short and pointed, casque low and much flattened posteriorly. Throat 
and mesial line of neck dull pink, with three narrow longitudinal lines of blue, rest of 
fore-neck scarlet. In front of the ear a small patch of livid magenta, above the ear 
blue. Head and hind-neck bright blue. Anterior portion of naked lower sides of 
neck livid purple, posterior portion scarlet, the whole surrounded with blue. Plumage 
black, long and silky. Legs horny grey. Iris hazel. 
