PECULIAR ORGAN IN THE TRACHEA OF THE EMEU. 



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hira amongst the countless myriads of his winter companions, winging his 

 wonderful flight without confusion in that cloud of birds which darkens the 

 wintry sky, or at this time of the year, when faithful to his native roof, 

 he separates himself and mate from that companionship, to chatter and 

 flutter on the old-accustomed chimney or parapet; if we consider the 

 countless worms and insects, their only food, which these never-tiring searchers 

 must consume, no reflective mind would ever think of raising a gun against 

 them, 



I thus only broach a subject which may most usefully be carried out 

 through all the tribes of harmless birds; let each man have his pet, and 

 do his best to encourage the preservation of his favourites. If I save but 

 one, I shall not have written in vain. As our beloved Cowper, that guile- 

 less philosopher, has so divinely sung — 



"The sum is this. If man's convenienre, health, 

 Or safety interfere, his rights and claims 

 Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. 

 Else they are all. — The meanest things that arc, 

 As free to live and to enjoy thai life, 

 As God was free to form them at the first, 

 "Who in His sov' reign wisdom made them all. — The Task. Book 6th. 



The Lache, Chester, March 11th., 1854. 



NOTICE OF A PECULIAR ORGAN IN THE TRACHEA 

 OP THE EMEU, {DROMARIUS NOVJS HOLLANDIJE.) - 



COJDIUNICATEU BY MR, ROBERT ANDICRSOX. 



Uudescribed organ -without poucli or bag. 

 VOL. VI. 



Bag or pouch blown out. 

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