94 THE WHOOPING ORANB. 



irattles of a cock. Unlike other birds, the feathers of the 

 idngs, and other parts of the body, are exactly the same j 

 80 that at a distance he looks rather as if he were entirely 

 covered with hairs like a bear, than with plumage like a 

 bird. The Cassowary eats indiscriminately whatever comes 

 in his way, and does not seem to have any sort of predilec- 

 tion in the choice of his food. He is a native of the southern 

 parts of India ; the eggs of the female are nearly fifteen 

 inches in circumference, of a grayish ash-colour, marked with 

 green. It has been said of the Cassowary, that he has the 

 head of a warrior, the eye of a lion, the armament of a poi^ 

 cupine, and the swiftness of a courser. 



THE WHOOPING CRANE. (Grus Ameriama.) 



This stately Crane (says Mr. Nuttall), the largest of all 

 ihe feathered tribes in the United States, like the rest of 

 its family, dwelling amidst marshes, and dark and desolate 

 Bwamps, according to the season, is met with in almost every 

 part of North America, from the islands of the West Indies, 

 to which it retires to pass the winter, to the utmost habitable 

 regions and fur countries of the North. A few hybemate in 

 the warmer parts of the Union, and some have been known 

 to linger through the whole of the inclement season in the 

 iwamps of New Jersey, near to Cape May. When di» 



