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Nothing is known of this form except one living individual in the Zoological Garden 

 of Berlin. My original preliminary description of it (I. c.) is as follows : — 



" This bird bears the same relationship to C. picticollis that C. papuanus edwardsi 

 does to C. papuanus. The throat and hind-neck are deep indigo-blue. Occiput pale 

 greenish blue. A small round black wattle on the fore-neck. Lower sides of neck 

 dark crimson. Casque and plumage similar to those of 0. picticollis." 



This form is named in honour of Dr. Heck, Director of the Zoological Garden of 

 Berlin, who kindly permitted Mr. Keulemans to make a drawing of the bird. 



19. Casuakius bennetti Gould. The Mooruk. (Plate XXXIX.) 



1857. Casuarius bennetti Gould, P. Z. S. p. 269, Aves, pi. 129 ; 



1858. Gould, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) i. p. 299 ; 



1858. J. E. Gray, P. Z. S. p. 271, Aves, pi. 144 (egg) ; 



1859. Bennett, P. Z. S. p. 32; Gould, B. Austr., Suppl. pis. 72, 73; Scl., Ibis, pp. 212, 235; 



1860. Bartlett, P. Z. S. p. 205, Aves, pi. 162 (egg); Scl., P. Z. S. p. 210; Bennett, Gath. 



Naturalist in Australas. p. 243, pi. iv. ; 



1862. Scl., Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. ix. p. 359, pi. lxii. ; Schleg., Jaarb. zool. Genootsch. Nat. Art. 



Mag. p. 198; 



1863. Scl., P. Z. S. p. 234 (incubation), p. 518 (descr. of pullus), pi. xlii. ; Jouan, Mem. Ac. Soc. 



Nat. Cherb. ix. p. 323 ; 



1864. Scl., P. Z. S. p. 271 (successfully reared) ; 



1865. Gould, Handb. B. Austr. ii. p. 561 ; 



1866. Schleg., Zool. Gart. vii. p. 178; 



1871. G. R. Gray, Hand-list, iii. p. 2, no. 9850; 



1873. Schleg., Mus. Pays-Bas, Struthiones, p. 4; Benn. & Sclat., P. Z. S. p. 519 (corr. of locality) ; 

 Garrod, P. Z. S. pp. 470, 644 (anatomy) ; 



1875. Scl., P. Z. S. pp. 85, 87; Scl., Rep. Brit. Assoc, p. 112; 



1876. Ramsay, P. Z. S. p. 122; 



1879. Scl., P. Z. S. p. 5; 



1880. Layard, Ibis, p. 303; Powell, P. Z. S. p. 493; 



1881. Salvad., Mem. R. Ac. Sc. Tor. (2) xxxiv. p. 214, pi. ii. fig. 10 (head) ; 



1882. Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xviii. p. 415, no. 9 ; id., Orn. Pap. e Mol. iii. p. 501 ; 



1891. Evans, Ibis, p. 84 (period of incubat.) ; Sliarpe, Cat. Osteol. Spec. R. C. Surg. iii. p. 438 ; 



1892. Ost, Zeitschr. Ool. pp. 15, 94; Schalow, ibid. p. 11 ; 

 1894. Id., Journ. f. O. p. 20 (egg) ; 



1896. Oust., Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, p. 256. 



1869. Cassowary from the Solomon Islands (error !), Hutton, Ibis, p. 352. 



Native name : " Moorup" in New Britain (corrupted: "'Mooruk"). 



Plumage black. Bill long, arched and pointed. Casque high, sharply depressed 

 posteriorly, the various ridges being sharply defined. Back of head, occiput, and 



