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Show 1875.] LIVING IN THE SOCIETY'S GARDENS. 87 few words to add about a species which we have not yet received, and which appears to be also hitherto unrecognized. When at Genoa last year the Marquis Doria called m y attention to a stuffed Cassowary in the Museo Civico, which had been obtained by Dr. E. Beccari in Wokan, the most northern of the Aroo Islands*. By m y friend's kindness I am now able to exhibit coloured sketches of this bird and also of its head and neck (see figures 1 and 2, p. 86). By these it will be seen at once that this species belongs to the section which contains C. galeatus, but from the highly elevated crest (see fig. 1) would seem to be more nearly allied to C. australis. The neck-wattles, however, are decidedly of a different structure, there being, in fact, only one broad central wattle, which is sliglitly divided at its termination (see fig. 2). Now the only Cassowary yet known to us from the Aroo Islands is C. bicarunculatusf-a very different species. I cannot, therefore, doubt that we have here again to deal with a new species of the genus, which I propose, with the Marquis Doria's sanction, to designate after its discoverer, CASUARIUS BECCARII, sp. nov. C. similis C. australi et crista pari modo elevata: sed caruncula cervicis una media, ad apicem divisa. Hab. Wokan, inss. Aroensium (Beccari). Mus. civit. Genoensis. The colours of the naked parts of the head and neck, as given in a drawing which M . Doria informs m e has been copied from a specimen in spirits in good preservation, would appear to show that in this respect also C. beccarii comes nearest to C. australis\. To conclude, I exhibit a revised table which summarizes our present knowledge of the Cassowaries and their distribution. Index specierum Generis Casuarii. a. Casside lateraliter compressa; appendicula cervicis aut duplici aut divisa. 1. C. galeatus, ex ins. Ceram. 2. C. beccarii, ex ins. Aroensi Wokan. 3. C. australis, ex Australia bor. 4. C. bicarunculatus, ex inss. Aroensibus. b. Casside transversim compressa; apppendicula cervicis unica. 5. C. uniappendiculatus, ex Papua. c. Casside transversim compressa; appendicula cervicis nulla. 6. C. papuanus, ex Papua boreali. 7. C. westermanni, ex ins. Papuana Jobie (?). 8. C. picticollis, ex Papua meridionali. 9. C. bennetti, ex Nov. Britann. * See Mr. Wallace's Map, Travels in E. I. Arch. ii. p. 219. t Figured P. Z. S. 1872, pl. xxvi. This specimen (the only adult example known) is now in the Cambridge University Museum, to which it was presented by Lord Walden. . . « , , , . ,, t See large figure of the head of this species in Gould s B. Austr. Suppl. pl. 70. |