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Show 86 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON THE CASSOWARIES [Feb. 16, coast of N e w Guinea. It is figured in the sketch which I now exhibit (Plate X X . fig. 1). There is a young example of the same species now living in the Zoological Gardens of Rotterdam, of which I also exhibit a coloured sketch taken by M r . Smit in August last (see Plate X X . fig. 2). As regards our specimen of C. australis, in its present immature dress it closely resembles the young of C. galeatus, of which a young Fig. 1. Side view of head of Casuarius beccarii. Fig. 2. Front view of same, showing wattles. example has been placed next to it in the Gardens. But it will be observed on comparison that the naked skin on the hind neck of C. australis is orange instead of red, and that the legs are more robust. So much for the Cassowaries now in our Gardens ; but I have a |