BICARUNCULATUS, Scelater.

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Two-wattled Cassowary.

CASUARIUS

 

runculatus, Sclater, Proc. 7 soc. 1860, pp. 5 i

: ter, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, pp. 21 1, 248.—Id. Trans. Zool. Soc. iv. p. 359, pl. lxxili

(1866).—Gray, Hand-l. B. in. p. 2, no. 9849
1875, p. 87.—Harting, mn Mosenthal &

Casuarius bica
(1860).—Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 8vo, i. p. 347
(1871).—Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, p. 495, pl. XXVi. ;
Harting, Ostriches & Ostrich-farming, p. 111 (1877).

— arvensis, Schlegel, Nederl. Tijdschr. Dierk. 8vo, ill. p. 347 (1866).

y Society in Rotterdam a young

Society of London obtained from the siste
slightly developed, was

jlumage and with the casque only
sition of the neck wattles far apart, which
common Cassowary (C. galeatus).

lent coloured picture

In the year 1860 the Zoological
Cassowary, which, although in immature ]

recognized by Dr. Sclater as a new species on account of the po

rendered the bird, even in its young stage, easily recognizabl
Before this specimen became fully adult it unfortunately died,
had been made from the living bird, and had bee hed by Dr. Sclater in tl
Zoological Society. A second example was received in 1869, but also died before reaching maturity. In the

‘Proceedings’ for 1872, however, a tully adult bird was feured by Dr.
d it in Calcutta, and the distinctness of th

by the Society from Mr.

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, having the latter very mucl
amuch smaller base on the ve and neck is also different.

The habitat of this species is now known t ns have been procured Fa
the Leyden Museum by Baron von Rosenberg 5 n in 1866 by Professor
Schlegel, who states that in a young specimen there

The figures in the Plate have been ¢ from the living spe !
to show the head and neck in these Cassowarles,
1 the head and neck of the bird,
lorns the neck in the present species.

e from the
but not before an excel

n publis ie ‘Transactions ’ of the

Sclater from a specimen purchased
Jamrach, who obtaine e species was
) smaller and rising from
rtex ; the colouring of the head
o be the Aru Islands
f these a descript
found no trace 0
cimen in the

where specime

and o jon was give
f any caruncles at all.
Zoological Gardens. It

as the bodies in all the

was
lrawn by me
is not necessary to do more than
; in such a way as to
I have
and the bright co

species are always black. therefore delineatec
louring which ac

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