200 BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, 



Genus DROMAIUS, Vieillot. 



At least two species of this form inhabit Australia, to 

 which country and Tasmania they are restricted. Structurally 

 they differ from the Ostrich in having three toes instead of 

 two, and from the Rheas and Cassowaries in other particulars. 

 The sexes are alike in colouring, and the male takes upon 

 himself the task of incubating the eggs. 



Sp. 492. DROMAIUS NOV^-HOLLANDI^E. 



Emu. 



New Holland Cassowary, Phill. Bot. Bay, pi. in p. 271. 



Southern Cassowary, Shaw, Nat. Misc., pk 99. 



Emu of New South Wales, Collin^s Voy., vol. ii. pi. in p. 307. 



Casuarius novte-holkmdice, Lath. Ind. Orn,, vol. ii. p. 665. 



Casoare de la Nouvelle Hollande, Perou, Voy. aux Terr. Aust., torn. i. 



p. 467, pis. 36 and 41. 

 Dromaius ater, Vieilk Gal. des Ois., torn. ii. pi. 226. 

 The Emeu, Benn. Gard. and Menag. of Zool. Soc, Bii'ds, p. 192. 

 Van Diemen's Land Cassowary, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. viii. p. 384, 



pi. cxxxviii. 

 Dromiceus australis, Swains. Class, of Birds, vol. ii. p. 346. 

 emu, Steph. Cont. of Shaw's Gen. Zook, vol. xi. p. 439, and vol. 



xiv. p. 307, pk 39. 

 Dromaius nova-hollandice, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of Birds, 2nd edit, 



p. 82. 



Dromaius novae-hoUandise, Gould, Birds of Australia, foL, vol. vi. 

 pLl. 



This well-known bird was first described and figured 

 under the name of the New Holland Cassowary in Governor 

 Pliillip's 'Voyage to Botany Bay,' published in 1789, and 

 it has been included in all ornithological works of a general 

 nature that have appeared since that date ; but by far the 

 most accurate account of it is that given by the late Mr. 

 Bennett in the ' Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological 



