124 HON. W. ROTHSCHILD ON THE GENUS CASUARIUS. 



1876. Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 119 (life-history) ; Rams., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales 



i. p. 186; 



1877. Rams., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii. pp. 196 (distribution), 376 (woodcuts of head) ; 



Harting, Ostr. & Ostr. Farming, p. 95; Salv. & Scl., Ibis, p. 327 ; 



1881. Salvad., Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Torino, (2) xxxiv. p. 192, pi. i. fig. 3 (head) ; 



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



1888. Rams., Tabul. List Austr. B. p. 19 (distribution) ; 



1889. Lumboltz, Among Cannibals, pp. 98, 99 ; 



1890. North, Nests & Eggs Austr. B. p. 291, pi. xv. (egg) ; 



1891. Sharpe, Cat. Osteol. Spec. R. Coll. Surg. iii. p. 439 ; 



1892. Schalow, Zeitschr. f. Ool. p. 11 ; 



1894. Schalow, Journ. f. Orn. p. 24; 



1895. Salvad., Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxvii. p. 594 ; 



1896. Meston, Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, x. pp. 59-64. 



1866. Casuarius johnsonii F. Miiller, Australasian of Dec. 15th (cf. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1867, 



pp. 241, 242) ; 



1867. Carron & Bennett, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. pp. 473, 474 ; Krefft, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 



p. 482 ; Diggles, Orn. Austr. pi. & text ; 



1868. A. Newton, Ibis, p. 348 (critical note on Diggles) ; 



1869. Krefft, Ibis, p. 318 (maintains that Johnson i is correct name) ; 



1870. A. Newton, Ibis, p. 120 (contends with others that the name australis is to be used). 

 1873. ? Casuarius regalis (nomeu nudum) Rosenberg, Journ. f. Orn. p. 390. 



Adult. Casque very high and massive, compressed laterally, deep brown ; bill long 

 and stout, black. Next to C. casuarius sclateri, the largest of the forms of Casuarius 

 casuarius. Plumage black. Sides of head, occiput, and upper hind-neck pale greenish 

 blue ; lower hind-neck scarlet, running a little into the blue of upper portion. Chin, 

 throat, and fore-neck deep indigo-blue. Lower naked sides of neck mixed red and 

 blue, giving a purple hue. Two wattles on fore-neck very large, deep pinkish red, 

 mottled with paler pink, blue at base. 



Young (quarter-grown). Head and hind-neck chestnut rufous. Chin, throat, and 

 fore-neck densely covered with short downy feathers of a brownish-buff colour. Rest 

 of body clayey brownish yellow mixed with dark rufous. 



Young (two-thirds grown). Plumage brown. Head and occiput dull pale blue ; 

 lower hind-neck orange ; fore-neck leaden blue ; lower naked sides of neck blue, 

 mixed with livid purple. 



Chicle. Head and hind-neck pale rufous; fore-neck yellowish buif ; rest of body 

 yellowish buff. From base of neck to end of tail along the back run three broad 

 longitudinal black bands, variegated with rufous, and each about seven-eighths of 

 an inch wide. On the sides are three irregular wavy black bands extending from the 

 shoulder-girdle down the sides to the beginning of the metatarsus. 



Hal. Northern Queensland. 



I have kept the adult female, described above, since 1890 : she laid some 40 or 50 

 eggs at Tring, and has now lived nearly two years in the Society's Gardens. 



