Comparison of the NIR spectrum of the HBe component of Z CMa to spectra of variable young stellar objects PV Cephei (Caratti o Garatti et al. 2013), V1647 ORI (Gibb et al. 2006), PTF 10nvg (Covey et al. 2011; Hillenbrand et al. 2013), and EX Lupi (Kóspál et al. 2011b). All spectra were smoothed to the lowest common resolution. Spectra of PV Cephei, V1647 ORI, and PTF 10nvg were dereddened by A_V = 8, 9, and 6 mag, respectively to reproduce the Z CMa’s HBe pseudo-continuum slope. The H-band spectrum of EX Lupi is dereddened by A_V = 1, while the K-band spectrum is redenned by A_V = 1.