collected in Dutch Xew Guinea. 327 



d. ?. Canoe Camp, Setakvva River, Nov. 1912. [C. 

 B.K.] 



e. ? . Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 5th Oct. 1912. 

 [ C. B. K. With a water-colour drawing of the head and 

 neck.] 



f. cJ . Launch Camp, Setakwa River, 13th March, 1913. 

 [C.B.K.-] 



Li the adult female the casque is much larger than in the 

 adult male. 



Mr. Kloss records the colours of the soft-parts of specimen 

 "■ e " as follows: — "Casque dark umber-brown shading into 

 green at the base and black in front ; bill black, tip paler ; 

 lores black ; wattles entirely pink ; on the base of the neck 

 an orange-scarlet area four inches at the widest part, supra- 

 orbital and occipital skin pale bright turquoise, pre-occipital 

 area and base of the mandible black, a pale yellow patch on 

 the lower angle of lower mandible, ; extensions of the wattle 

 up the neck, mottled with deep pink and white ; warts on the 

 base of neck dirty bluish-purple ; gular skin and the neck 

 slaty-blue, blotched with black ; nape turquoise and deep 

 cobalt ; nuchal patch plum-coloured and orange-red above 

 with bluish V-shaped markings, orange and orange-red 

 below, slightly mottled with purplish towards the base. Iris 

 hazel ; legs greyish-black, darker behind ; toes and claws 

 horn-colour." — C. B. K. 



" Legs horn-brown tinged with olive, shading into buff at 

 the tibio-tarsal joint." — C. H. B. G. 



Mr. Walter Groodfellow writes : — " The natives have dis- 

 tinct names for the male and female birds, and, judging from 

 the quantities of feathers in their possession, must often, 

 succeed in catching them. Eggs and newly hatched chicks 

 were brought in during January and February. On one 

 occasion at Parimau some Cassowaries' eggs must have been 

 kept by the natives for a few days before they hatched, for 

 young ones were Krought to us which had evidently just 

 emerged from the shells. Cassowaries were seen at various 

 times by the different members of the Expedition searching 

 for food in the pools and shallow waters of the river-})eds. 



