360 DR. SCLATER ON THE STRUTHIOUS BIRDS 
5, CASUARIUS AUSTRALIS. 
Casuarius australis, Wall, Illustrated Sydney Herald, June 2nd, 1861; Gould, P.Z.S. 
1857, p. 270. 
This Cassowary is only known from the account of it furnished to the newspaper 
above-named by Mr. William Sheridan Wall, late Curator of the Australian Museum 
at Sydney, and reprinted by Mr. Gould in the Society’s ‘ Proceedings.’ It is said to be 
distinguished by a ‘‘ bright-red helmet and blue and scarlet caruncles.” There is no 
example of this bird in any museum, the original skin obtained by Mr. Wall having 
been unfortunately lost’. 
IV. Dromzus. 
1. Dromaus Nov#-HOLLANDI£. (Pl. LXXV.) 
This well-known bird appears to inhabit the interior of New South Wales and the 
whole eastern portion of the Australian continent. The figure is taken from a bird 
presented to the Society’s Menagerie by the Marchioness of Londonderry in 1857. 
2. Dromaus rrroratus. (Pl. LXXVI.) 
Dromeus irroratus, Bartlett, P. Z.S. 1859, p. 205; Sclater, P. Z.S. 1860, p. 248. 
The Emeu of Western Australia may, as was pointed out by Mr. Bartlett, when he 
first described it at a meeting of this Society in May 1859, be easily distinguished from 
the well-known Eastern bird by its spotted plumage. On comparing the feathers of the 
two species together, the mode in which this spotting is produced is clearly apparent. 
The feathers of D. irroratus are barred alternately with silky white and darkish grey 
throughout their length, terminating in a black tip margined posteriorly with rufous. 
Those of D. nove hollandie are uniform blackish grey from the base to the extremity, 
which is black with a broad subterminal band of rufous. On comparing the two living 
birds together, we find D. irroratus generally of a much more slender habit. The tarsi 
are longer and thinner, and the toes longer and much more slender. The tarsal scutes 
are smaller. The irides are of a pale hazel instead of a reddish brown as in D. nove 
hollandie. 
The example of D. irroratus in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of Amsterdam 
was brought by a Dutch vessel from Albany, King George’s Sound. I have reason to 
1 A sixth species of Cassowary has been described since the paper was read, under the name Casuarius haupi, 
by Herr G. von Rosenberg, of Amboyna, in Cabanis’s Journal fiir Ornithologie (1861, p. 44). It is from New 
Guinea and the island of Salawatty, and has no carwneles on the neck. The species will therefore now stand as 
follows ;— 
1. C. galeatus, ex Ceram. 4. C. kaupi, ex Nov. Guinea et Salawatty. 
2. C. bicarunculatus, ex loc. ignot. 5. C. bennettii, ex Nov. Britannia. 
3. C. uniappendiculatus, ex loc. ignot. 6. C. australis, ex Nov. Holland. Bor. 
