STRUTHIONID.'E. 



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heavy stones, united by a long leather thong. The latter 

 instrument is thrown at the legs of the bird, which 

 it binds together, and of course prevents all further 

 progress. 



Fig. 166. — the American osteich. 

 (Rhea Americana.) 



In IS'evv Holland the Ostrich is represented by the Emu 

 {Bromaius Novce Hollandce). In the Emu the feet have 

 three toes. Its distinctive characters consist in the posi- 

 tion of the nostrils, which open not far from the tip of 

 the upper mandible, in the complete concealment of the 

 wings under the hair-like feathers of the body, and in the 

 claws of all the toes being nearly of equal length. This 

 bird is inferior in size only to tlie African Ostrich, mea- 

 suring from five to seven feet in height. The crown of 



