CASUARIUS BICARUNCULATUS, Sclater, 
Two-wattled Cassowary, 
Casuarius hicarunculatus, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, pp. 21 1, 248. — Id. Trans. Zool. Soc. iv. p. 359, pi. Ixxiii. 
(1860). — Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dicrk. 8vo, iii. p. 347 (1866). — Gray, Haiid-l. B. iii. p. 2, no. 9849 
(1871). — Sclater, Proc. Zool, Soc. 1872, p. 495, pi. xxvi. ; 1875, p. 87. — Harting, in Mosenthal & 
Harting, Ostriches & Ostrich-farming, p. Ill (1877). 
aruensis, Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 8vo, iii. p. 347 (1866). 
In the year 1860 the Zoological Society of London obtained from the sister Society in Rotterdam a young 
Cassowary, which, although in immature plumage and with the casque only sliglitly dercloped, was 
recognized by Dr. Sclater as a new species on account of the position of tlie neck wattles fiir apart, which 
rendered the hirtl, even in its young stage, easily recognizable from the common Cassowary (C. galeatus). 
Before this specimen became fully adult it unfortunately died, but not before an excellent coloured picture 
had been made from the living bird, and had been published by Dr. Sclater in the ‘Transactions’ of the 
Zoological Society. A second example was received in 1869, hut also died before reaching maturity. In the 
‘Proceedings’ for 1872, however, a tally adult bird was figured by Dr. Sclater from a specimen purchased 
by the Society from Mr. Jamrach, who obtained it in Calcutta, and the distinctness of the species was 
placed beyond all question. Besides the different arrangement of the neck-wattles, it differs from C. galeatus, 
to which the form of the casque somewhat allies it, in having the latter very much smaller and rising from 
a much smaller base on the vertex ; the colouring of the head and neck is also different. 
The habitat of this s])ecies is now known to be tlie Aru Islands, where specimens have been procured for 
the Leyden Museum by Baron von Rosenberg; and of these a description was given in 1866 by Professor 
Schlegel, who states that in a young specimen there was found no trace of any caruncles at all. 
The figures in the Plate have been drawn by me from the living specimen in the Zoological Gardens. It 
is not necessary to do more than to show the head and neck in these Cassowaries, as the bodies in all the 
species are always black. I have therefore delineated the head and neck of the bird, in such a way as to 
show the distinctive easque and the bright colouring which adorns the neek in the present species. 
