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78 CARR-CROW—CASSOWARY 
birds there are only two separate carpal bones, one radial, on the 
convex or anterior bend of the wrist, and one ulnar, on the posterior 
or inner angle. Originally the carpus is composed, 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 with the adjoining metacarpal bones (see 
SKELETON). 
CARR-CROW or CARR-SWALLOW, 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 written 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 (Gleanings, 11. 
p- 181, pl. 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 occidentale, Linn. 
The bird is the Pauais galeata of modern 
ornithology, one of the CURASSOWS. 
CASSOWARY, a corrupted form of the Malayan Suwwari 
(Crawtfurd, Gramm. and Dict. Malay Language, ii. pp. 178 and 25), 
apparently first printed as,Casoaris by Bontius in.1658 (Hist. nat. 
et med, Ind. Orient. p. 71). 
"The Cassowaries (Casuariide) and Emeus (Dromxidx)—as the 
latter name is now used—have much structural resemblance, and 
form the Order Megistunes,! which is peculiar to the Australian 
Region. Prof. Huxley has shewn (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 422, 
423) that they agree in differing from the other Ratir# 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 hyporhachis, or AFTERSHAFT, being 
as long as the main shaft—a feature noticed in the case of either 
form so soon as examples were 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. 
CASHEW-BIRD, 
(After Swainson.) 
1 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xx. p. 500. 
