120 HON. W. ROTHSCHILD ON THE GENUS CASUAEIUS. 



A most magnificent series of this bird was procured on the Fly River by D'Albertis, 

 and a number of woodcuts of the heads and necks of them are given in the Annals of 

 the Genoa Museum and in Count Salvadori's splendid monograph of the genus 

 Casuarius, and a coloured figure, from a sketch of D'Albertis, on plate i. (fig. 4) of 

 the same work. 



Some eggs from near Port Moresby, which I received together with a chick, are 

 covered with glossy glazed granulations, which are not at all connected, but stand 

 more or less separated from each other. They are bright green, and measure 150 : 103, 

 146 : 100, 146 : 97, and 146 : 95 mm. 



4. Casuarius casuarius salvadorii Oust. Salvadori's Cassowary. (Plate XXIV.) 



1875 ?. Casuarius tricarunculatus Beccari, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, vii. p. 717 (Warbusi) ; 

 1878. Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xii. pp. 419, 420 ; 



1881. Salvad., Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Torino, (2) xxxiv. p. 184 ; 



1882. Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xviii. p. 413 ; 

 1882. Salvad., Orn. Pap. e Molucc. iii. p. 473 ; 



1895. Salvad., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 591 ; 



1896. Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, (3) viii. p. 263 (type in Mus.). 



1878. (Feb. 23rd.) Casuarius salvadorii Oustalet, Bull. Assoc. Sc. de France, Bull. no. 539, p. 350 

 (" Warbusi ") ; 



1878. Scl., Proc. Zool. Soc Lond. pp. 213, 214, fig. 213 (Wandammen; head and neck) ; A. B. 



Meyer, Journ. f. Orn. p. 202 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xii. p. 420; 



1879. Salvad., Ibis, p. 105 ; 



1881. Salvad., Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Torino, (2) xxxiv. p. 204, pi. i. fig. 5 ; 



1882. Salvad., Orn. Papuas. e Molucc. iii. p. 488 (footnote) ; 

 1895. Salvad., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 595. 



1878. Casuarius altijugus Scl., Nature, xvii. p. 375 (Wandammen) ; 



1879. Salvad., Ibis, p. 105. 



Adult. Plumage black ; casque high, brownish black ; bill thick, long, and not 

 pointed. Head and upper part of hind-neck pale greenish blue, rest of hind-neck 

 scarlet. Naked lower sides of neck blue anteriorly, purplish crimson posteriorly. 

 Chin, throat, and fore-neck deep blue. Wattles small and widely separated, base and 

 inner half blue, rest dark fleshy pink. Total length about 1^ in., tarsus 300 to 

 316 mm., bill from gape 150 to 190 mm., inner claw about 80 mm. 



Chick. Head and neck rufous; rest of body creamy white or pale buff, with three 

 longitudinal dorsal black bands variegated with rufous. The three lateral stripes 

 along the flanks and thighs are broken up into a number of irregular brown spots 

 and patches. 



Hab. North-west New Guinea. 



Casuarius casuarius salvadorii was originally described by Oustalet and Sclater as 

 C. salvadorii and O. altijugvs respectively, from skins obtained by Laglaize near 

 Wandammen on the south-west coast of Geelvink Bay, in North-west New Guinea ; 



