CASSOIVAJ^V 



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The type of the Casuariidx is the species named by Linnseus 

 Struthio casuarius and by Latham Ccisuarms emeu. Vieillot sub- 

 sequently called it C. galeafus, and his epithet has been very 

 commonly adopted by writers, to the exclusion of the older specific 

 appellation. It seems to be peculiar to the island of Ceram, and 

 was made known to naturalists, as we learn from Clusius, in 1597, 



Ceram CAasowARV.i 



by the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies, when an example 

 was brought from Banda, Avhither it had doubtless been conveyed 

 from its native island. It was said to have been called by the 

 inhabitants " Emeu," or " Ema," but this name they must have had 

 from the earlier Portuguese navigators.^ Since that time examples 



^ The figure is taken, by permission, from Messrs. Mosenthal and Harting's 

 Ostriches and Ostrich Farming (London : 1877). 



- It is known that the Portuguese preceded the Dutch in their voyages to 

 the East, and it is almost certain that the latter were assisted by pilots of the 



