Cassowaries Gallery

Double-wattled / Southern CASSOWARY

JPF-9457
Double-wattled / Southern CASSOWARY
Tropical Rainforest, North Queensland, Australia
Casuarius casuarius
Jean Paul Ferrero
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Southern cassowary by JG Keulemans

Hand-coloured lithograph of cassowary head by JG Keulemans (c. 1898), based on the live animals at Walter Rothschild's Museum at Tring. At the time, illustrators were key to creating a scientifically accurate record of species appearances. Published in the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London XV. Date: circa 1898

© Mary Evans / Natural History Museum

Wildlife of New Guinea, chromolithograph, published in 1895

Wildlife of New Guinea: 1) Short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossidae); 2) Bennett's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus bennettianus); 3) Palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus); 4) Western crowned pigeon (Goura cristata); 5) Northern cassowary - chick (Casuarius unappendiculatus); 6) Common paradise kingfisher (Tanysiptera galatea); 7) Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise (Seleucidis melanoleucus); 8) Raggiana Bird-of-paradise, (Paradisaea raggiana); 9) Blue bird-of-paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi); 10) King bird-of-paradise (Cicinnurus regius, male); 11) Black Sicklebill (Epimachus speciosus); 12) Western parotia (Parotia sefilata). Chromolithograph, published in 1895