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Chapter I: CASUARIUS UNIAPPENDICULATUS, Blyth. (juv.). From

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an example in the British Museum of Natural History.
By permission of the Director._ Frontispiece

_This plate should be compared with that
opposite p. 22, which represents a cassowary
with two wattles--probably an immature Casuarius
galeatus,_ Vieill. _for that is the species which
is believed to have been brought alive to Europe
by the Dutch in 1597. An immature example of
that species was not available for
reproduction._

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Essays on early ornithology and kindred subjectsChapter I: CASUARIUS UNIAPPENDICULATUS, Blyth. (juv.). From

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