]30 HON. W. ROTHSCHILD ON THE GENUS CASUARIITS. 



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



1857. (?) Casuarius galeatus "Wallace, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. xx. p. 477 (Aru Islands !). 



1858. (?) C. emeu (non Latham!) G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 187 (sternum from Aru). 

 1861. (?) Casuarius kaupi (non Rosenberg!) G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. p. 438; 



18S3. Rosenberg, N. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 252 (non p. 251) (Aru) ; id., Journ. f. Orn. 

 p. 135 (non p. 134, quod uuappendiculatus !). 



1866. Casuarius aruensis Sclileg., Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. iii. p. 347. 



1867. Casuarius galeatus (non Vieillot!), Rosenberg, Reis naar Zuidoostereil. p. 52. 

 1884. (?) Casuarius sp. A. B. Meyer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 296 (egg from Aru). 



Native name : " Kudari," in the Aru Islands (fide Rosenberg) . 



Adult. Plumage black ; casque compressed at sides, not flattened at back, low and 

 deep, horn-brown. Bill long, pointed, black. Head and occiput pale greenish blue. 

 Upper part of hind-neck deeper blue, rest of hind-neck scarlet ; fore-neck dark blue. 

 On each side of the neck is a long pendent wattle, blue at base, deep pinkish red for 

 the rest of the surface. Lower naked sides of neck deep blue. 



Young (three-fourths grown). Plumage brown. Hind-neck dull orange ; fore-neck 

 and head dull blue ; wattles pale pink. 



Young (half-grown). Plumage yellowish brown. Hind-neck and wattles dull whitish 

 flesh-colour ; fore-neck and head dull greyish blue. 



I have received from Dr. Finsch, among a number of chicks of Cassowaries in the 

 Leyden Museum, one brought by von Rosenberg in 1866 from Kabroor Island, Aru 

 group, which is clearly C. bicarunculatus. It appears to be much faded, but is very 

 different from any other chicks I have seen ; it is rufous all over, and has five dorsal 

 bands and two bands of irregular patches on the thighs of a darker, more brownish 

 rufous colour. 



Hah. Wammer and Kabroor, Aru Islands. 



The two birds on which the descriptions here given are based have been kept alive 

 by me, both at Tring and in the Society's Gardens, and the older of the two has been 

 in England five years. 



The first notice that appeared about this Cassowary was the following note by 

 Dr. Sclater on a young individual without locality (P. Z. S. 1860, p. 211): — 



" Casuarius bicarunculatus, a name I propose to apply to a Cassowary of which I have, 

 recently obtained a young example for the Society in exchange from the Zoological 

 Gardens at Rotterdam. It is easily distinguishable by the throat-caruncles being 

 placed far apart on the sides of the throat, lighter colouring, &c. As the bird itself will 

 shortly arrive in this country, I hope to be able to give full particulars concerning this 

 new species at the next Meeting of the Society." This was done (p. 249), and the throat- 

 wattles were figured. Adult individuals were first brought to London in 1872. 



Valentyn (Oud en nieuw Oost-Indien, iii. p. 299) first mentioned that a Cassowary 

 existed in the Aru Islands, and that it differs from C. casuarius, but he gave no 



