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by Dr. Sclater as Casuarius kaupi in the ' Proceedings ' of the 

 Zoological Society for 1872. In 1874 Dr. Sclater discovered 

 that the name ' kaupi ' was founded on the young of Casuarius 

 unappendiculatus; he therefore proposed the name C. wester- 

 manni for the bird then living in London. Count Salvadori 

 and many others, myself included, have considered C. wester- 

 manni to be a synonym of Casua7-ius papuanus. There is, 

 liowever, now living in the Zoological Gardens of London 

 a Cassowary oiih.e papuanus iy^e, brought by Mr. Goodfellow 

 from the Island of Jobi : this bird shows great differences 

 both from C. p. papuanus and C. p. edwardsi. 



" The late Professor Oustalet described two Cassowaries 

 which had been brought home by Laglaize from Jobi 

 as C. laglaizei and C. occipitalis, but these both have the 

 distinct neck-wattle of the C. unappendiculatus group. It 

 therefore remains to prove whether the name C. ivestermanni 

 refers to the Jobi Island Mooruk or not. Living Cassowaries 

 come into the hands of European dealers in so many round- 

 about ways, that unless they are brought over by a 

 competent ornithologist like Mr. Goodfellow^ the alleged 

 localities may be ignored. It therefore behoves us to con- 

 sider the birds themselves. 



"At first sight the most striking difference between 

 C. p. papuanus and Mr. Goodfellow's bird is that, instead of 

 the entire occiput being white as well as the sides of the 

 head, the occiput is black and only the sides of the head 

 behind the eye are white. Again, the frontal half of the 

 lower sides of the neck is dark purplish-violet, not pale 

 reddish -mauve ; lastly, beneath the ear there is a large 

 purple patch as in C. claudei. 



" On looking at the drawing of C. westermanni one is at 

 once struck by the black occiput, but the sides of the head 

 are whiter than in the Jobi bird, and on close inspection 

 the occiput proves to be covered with feathers. As no 

 drawing is extant of the type of C. ivestermanni when adult, 

 it is impossible to say if it really had a black occiput. 

 The drawing of the young bird, however, shows no trace 



