CASUARIUS UNIAPPENDICULATUS, By. 
One-carunculated Cassowary. 
Casuarius, Hew 8p, Blyth, Ibis, 1860, p. 193.—Selat. in Proc. of Zool. Soc., 1860, p. 210.—Ann. and Mag. Nat. 
Hist., 3rd ser., vol. vi. p. 145. 
——— unappendiculatus, Blyth, Journ. of Asiat. Soc. Beng., vol, xxix. pp. 112, 113. 
- uniappendiculatus, Benn. bis, 1860, p. 403, pl. xiv.—Ibis, 1862, p. 78.—Sclat. Trans. Zool. Soc., vol. iv. 
p- 359, pl. 74.—Sclat. Proc. of Zool. Soc., 1863, p. 225; 1866, pp. 34, 168. 
= Wnd-anpendacutaties, Blyth, Ibis, 1860, p. 307.—Benn. Ibis, 1860, p. 403.—Blyth, Ann. and Mag. Nat. 
Hist., 3rd ser., vol. vi. p. 113. 
———— Kaupi, Rosenb, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, p. 44, Taf. i. figs. 12, 13; This, 1861, p.312.—G. R. Gray, Proc. 
of Zool. Soc., 1861, p. 438. 
On the preceding Plate [ have illustrated that remarkable bird, the Mooruk (Casuarius Bennetti) ; on the 
present one I give a representation of another no less fine species in its fully adult state, of the same family, 
the native country of which is said to be New Guinea and the adjacent islands, particularly that of Salawatty ; 
hence, if not a native of Australia, its habitat is almost as near to that country as Ireland is to England, 
Like the Casuarius Bennetti and the C. australis, the C. uniappendiculatus is a fine addition to the group of 
existing Struthiones. When the first living example came under my notice in the Gardens of the Zoological 
Society of Amsterdam, I did not rest until I bad obtained a drawing of the bird from life, being well aware 
it would eventually die, and that, without such a record, the knowledge of the colouring of its soft parts 
would in all probability be lost to science. Fortunately Mr. Robert Kretschmar, of Leipzig, offered to make 
me such a drawing ; and a copy of it, with but little alteration, is here given. The Casuarius uniappendiculatus 
appeared to be a bold and spirited bird, and to be taller than any other species of the genus I had seen alive. 
Unfortunately it is now dead; but its skin graces, I believe, the fine Museum at Leyden. To these brief 
remarks I append all that is known respecting the species. 
For our first knowledge of its existence we are indebted to Mr, Blyth, who, ina letter to the Editor of 
“The Ibis’ (1860, p. 193), speaks of a Cassowary living in the aviary of the Babu Rajendra Mallick, with 
“a yellow throat, a single yellow throat-wattle, and a long stripe of naked yellow skin down each side of 
the eke Soon afterwards Mr. Blyth characterized it, in the ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,’ 
and in another letter to the Editor of ‘The Ibis,’ for the same year, p. 307, says, ‘© T have described it as 
Jasuarius uno-appendiculatus—rather a long name, but descriptive of its most strongly marked peculiarity.” 
The next notice of it is contained in a communication to ‘The Ibis’ for the same year from my friend 
Dr. George Bennett, of Sydney, then residing for a short time in Europe; his remarks have reference to the 
Amsterdam specimen, which, he says, “ differs in many characters from any of the hitherto known species. 
It appears to be about half-grown, and the casque is not yet developed. The cheeks are of a bluish green ; 
the throat carunculated, and of a bright ochreous colour, terminating in a single wattle ; on each side of the 
a bright ochreous colour, with a slight crimson tinge. In general appearance the 
Cassowary of about the same age. ‘These characters accord so nearly 
with the bird mentioned by Mr. Blyth as living in the menagerie of the Babu Rajendra Mullick, aut Calcutta, 
as to induce me to regard it as probably of the same species. On the label Is written, Canary Uni-appen- 
diculatus, Blyth. Ship “ Agatha and Maria,” from Molueca Islands,’ without designating any island in parti- 
cular.” . - : 
In January 1861 the bird was announced, in the ‘ Journal ftir Ornithologie, p. 44, by es-ven Rosenberg, 
} ry in the island of Salawatty, and called Casuarius Kaupi. ‘This announcement 
; have been only three Cassowaries known—one 
neck a bare space, also of 
bird otherwise resembles the Common 
of Amboyna, as a new discove 
d by the following remarks :-—* Hitherto there 
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r from Australia, and a third from New Britain; that which occurs in New Guinea 
identical with the Ceram bird. ‘The New-Guinea species, which I have called 
but it is so uncommonly shy that it easily escapes from the hunters in the 
the reason why it has hitherto escaped the notice of ornithologists. By a 
August that one of my hunters obtained an old male 
ame on board I found I had to do with an entirely new 
was accompanie 
from Ceram, anothe 
has usually been considered 
C. Kaur, is not very rare, 
thick forests; this is, I suppose, 
particularly lucky chance, howe 
lawatty ; and as soon as ite 
er, it happened last 
on the west coast of Sa 
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species, 
At the meeting of the 
extract from a letter addr 
ov the 27th of March, 1866, Mr. Sclater read an 
Zoological Society of London, | ) te 
stating that the Musee des Pays-Bas had 
essed to him by Dr. Schlegel of Leyden, 
ns of a Cassowary, collected by the late traveller Bernstein, in Salawatty, 
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recently received seven specie 
