GA.5TJABUTS TO T IA P PE NDICTOA-TiorS', Blyth-
CASUARIUS UNIAPPENDICULATUS, myth.
One-carunculated Cassowary.
Camarius, new sp., Blyth, ibis, 1860, p. 193.—Sclat. in Proc. of Zool. Soo., 1860, p. 210.—Ann. and Mag. Nat.
Hist., 3rd ser„ vol. vi. p. 145.
-------umppendimlatus, Blyth, Journ. of Asiat. Soc. Beng., vol. xxix. pp. 112, 113.
___miappmdiculatm, Benn. Ibis, 1860, p. 403, pi. xiv.-Ibis, 1862, p. 78.—Sclat. Trans. Zool. Soc., vol. tv.
p. 369, pi. 74.—Sclat. Proc. of Zool. Soc., 1863, p. 225; 1866, pp. 34, 168.
___uno-appendiculatus, 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. fur Orn., 1861, p. 44, Taf. i. figs. 12,13; Ibis, 1861, p. 312.-G. R. Gray, Proc.
of Zool. Soc,, 1861, p. 438.
On the preceding Plate I 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 famdy,
the native country of which is said to be New Guinea and the adjacent islands, part.cularly 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 Casuarm Bennetti and the C. australis, the C. umappendiculatus is a fine addition to the group o
existing Struthiones. When the first living example came under my notrce in the Gardens of the Zoological
Society of Amsterdam, I did not rest until I had obtained a drawing of the bird from hfe, being well aware
it would eventually die, and that, without such a record, the knowledge of the colouring of As 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 Casuarms umappendiculatus
appeared to be a bo’ld 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 br.ef
remarks I append all that is known respecting the species. I
For our first knowledge of its existence we are indebted to M , Blyth, who, in a letter to the Editor o
I The Ibis ’ (1860, p. 193), speaks of a Cassowary living in the aviary of the Balm Rajendra Mulhck, with MB throat, l single yellow throat-wattle, and a long stripe of naked yellow skin down each side of
the neck.” Soon afterwards Mr. Blyth characterized it, in the I Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,
and in another letter to the Editor of I The Ibis,’ for the same year, p. 307, says, “ I have described i I
cL a r iu s uno-appendkulatus—rather a long name, but descriptive of its most strongly marked peculiarity
" Xt no ice 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
It appears to be about half-grown, and the casque 9 not yet developed. The heek are of i f
the throat carunculated, and of a bright ochreous colour, terminating in a single wat ,
neck a bare space, also of a bright ochreous colour, with a slight crimson tinge. In general appearance the
, - .«mhles the Common Cassowary of about the same age. These characters accord so near y
diculam, Blyth. Ship “ Agatha and Maria,” from Molucca Islands,’ without designating any is an in
CUIn' ianuarv 1861 the bird was announced, in the • Journal fur Ornitkologie,’ p. 44, by G. von Rosenberg
In m m m m m in ■ island — I and called H Kaupi. B announcement
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C Kaupi, V" y r" e’ b“‘ L 'U l n " w h y T h u s hitherto escaped the notice of ornithologists By a
thick forests; th^ ^ ^ it h J lasl Augllst that one of my hunters obtained an old male
Jir'llm w l c i t ir s id aw a tty ; and as soon as it came on board I found I had to do with an entirely new
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