148 HON. W. ROTHSCHILD ON THE GENUS CASUARIUS. 
20. CASUARIUS BENNETTI MACULATUS, subsp. nov. 
Casque high, much depressed posteriorly, and sharply ridged. Plumage black; 
bill long, arched, and pointed ; inner claw long. (This bird was first identified by me 
as a second specimen of (@. picticollis hecki.) Occiput and hind-neck bright indigo- 
blue; sides of head, face, and the fore-neck paler and brighter blue. On the lower 
part of fore-neck isa large round patch, 14 inches in diameter and of a rosy-purple 
colour. Naked lower sides of neck rosy purple: from and below the ear-hole 
extending to the gape is a large white patch washed with rose-colour. 
Hab. unknown. 
This form may eventually prove to be only a colour-aberration of C. bennetti; but, 
so long as we do not know the exact habitat of every species and subspecies of 
Cassowary, and the full extent of their individual variation, I consider it right to name 
and describe this bird as a subspecies of C. bennetti. The type is now living in the 
Society’s Gardens, and was fully adult when it was imported. It seems to be a male, 
and is not so wild as my specimens of true C. bennetti usually were. 
