CASSOWARY 79 
The type of the Casuariidy is the species named by Linnzeus 
Struthio casuarius and by Latham Casuarius emeu. Vieillot sub- 
sequently called it C. galeatus, 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 
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CrramM Cassowary.1 
by the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies, when an example 
was brought from Banda, whither 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 
1 The figure is taken, by permission, from Messrs. Mosenthal and Harting’s 
Ostriches and Ostrich Farming (London: 1877). 
2 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 
