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A monograph of the genus Casuarius . With a dissertation on the morphology and phylogeny of the Palæognathæ (Ratitæ and Crypturi) and Neognathæ (Carinatæ)

Transactions of the Zoological Society of London vol.15 part 5, no.1

December 1900 pp.109-290

Lionel Walter (Walter) Rothschild with William P. Pycraft

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Eighteen colour plates, and additional black and white plates, diagrams and photographs. Coloured map of Papua New Guinea and northern Australia.The monograph (pp.109-148) is by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, and the dissertation (pp.149-290) undertaken at his request by W.P.Pycraft.A natural history of the cassowaries, describing specimens of the birds and the circumstances of their collection.

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