32G Mr. W. R. Ogilvie- Grant on Birds 



the bill and casque. Between the gape and the ear a patch 

 o£ deep plum-colour; upper half of the back of the neck 

 electric-blue, shading into vioJet-blue on the sides and fore- 

 part of the neck_, including the throat; lower half of the 

 back of the neck orange-chrome, this colour extending down 

 the upper margin of a bare magenta-coloured area situated 

 on each side of the feathered part of the neck. Iris rich 

 brown ; legs and toes olive-brown, lighter olive on the front 

 of the tarsi and joints. 



The species stands about 3 feet 2 inches in height. 



Culmen 59 mm. ; tarsus 255 ; middle toe and claw 165. 



" This dwarf species of Cassowary was met with on five or 

 six occasions in the mountains and, though only one was 

 shot, was by no means wild. It was equally at home on the 

 rough steep sides of the mountains and in the rock-strewn 

 beds of the streams." — C. H. B. G. 



The species was also procured by A. S. Meek on the Utakwa 

 Hiver at an altitude of 3000 ft., and a head and neck sent by 

 him are preserved in the Tring Museum. Mr. Rothschild 

 also possesses a complete adult specimen of C. claudii, which 

 w'as imported some years ago as a young bird, and recently 

 died in captivity. 



Mr. Wollaston did not obtain the species on the Utakwa, 

 but the tracks of a Cassowary seen at an elevation of 2000 ft. 

 led him to believe that it was of this species. 



The specimen figured is the ^ type of the species. 



Casuarius sclateri. 



Casuar'ius c. sclateri Salvad. ; Rothschild, Trans. Zool. Soc. 

 XV. p. 118, fig. 1 (1898) ; van Oort, p. 51 (1909) ; Roths. & 

 Hartert, N. Z. xx. p. 476 (1913). 



Casuarius sclateri Ogilvie-Grant, P. & P. p. 297 (1912); 

 id. Ibis, 1913, p. 108. 



a. S (head only). Parimau, Mimika River, Aug. 1910. 

 [ ^V. G.'\ 



b. Head only. Wataikwa River, Dec. 1910. [G. C. S.] 



c. ? . Wataikwa River, 15th Oct. 1910. [No. 1378, 

 G.C.S.] 



