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CARR-CRO W—CASSO WAR Y 



Cashew-bird. 

 (After Swainsou.) 



birds there are only two separate carpal bones, one radial, on the 

 convex or anterior bend of the Avrist, and one ulnar, on the posterior 

 or inner angle. Originally the carpus is com2:)osed, as in Reptiles 

 and Mammals, of a greater number of bones, which are also 

 present in the embryos of Birds, but most of them fuse either 

 with each other or Avith the adjoining metacarpal bones (see 

 Skeleton). 



CARE-CEOW or CARR-SWALLOAV, the name used in 

 Lincolnshire and perhaps other parts of England for the Black 

 Tern in the days when it inhabited this country. The former 

 was Avritten by Willughby — on the authority of his correspondent 

 Johnson — " Scare-crow." 



CARR-GOOSE, an old name for the 

 Great Crested Grebe (Podicipes cristatus). 



CASHEW or CUSHEW-BIRD, so 

 called, according to Edwards {Gleaninr/s, ii. 

 p. 181, pi. 295)^ from the likeness of the 

 blue knob on its forehead to the cushew 

 or cashew- nut, which is an appendage to 

 the fruit of Anacardium occideiitale, Linn. 

 The bird is the Patixis galcata of modern 

 ornithology, one of the CuRASSOWS. 



CASSOWARY, a corrupted form of the INIalayan Suicari 

 (Crawfurd, Gramm. and Did. Malay Languar/e, ii. pp. 178 and 25), 

 apparently first printecl_as_6'asoflr'is by Bontius in 1658 {Hist. nat. 

 et mcd. Ind. Orient, p. 71). 



The Cassowaries (Casuariidx) and Emeus {Drommdx) — as the 

 latter name is now used — have much structural resemblance, and 

 form the Order Megistanes,^ which is peculiar to the Australian 

 Region. Prof. Huxley has shewri {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, jDp. 422, 

 423) that they agree in diifering from the other RatiT/E in many 

 important characters, into the details of which it is now impossible 

 to enter ; but one of the most obvious of them is that each contour- 

 feather appears to be double, its hjporhachis, or AFTERSHATT, being 

 as long as the main shaft — a feature noticed in the case of either 

 form so soon as examples Avere brought to Europe. The external 

 distinctions of the two families are, however, equally plain. The 

 Cassowaries, when adult, bear a horny helmet on their head, they 

 have some part of the neck bare, generally more or less ornamented 

 with caruncles, and the claw of the inner toe is remarkably 

 elongated. The Emeus have no helmet, their head is feathered, 

 their neck has no caruncles, and their inner toes bear a claw of 

 no singular character. 



^ Anil, and Mag. A^'at. Hist. ser. 4, xx. p. 500. 



