LIST OF BIRDS NOW OR LATELY LIVING IN 

 THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK, 



January, 1909. 



Class AVES, Birds. 



Order RHEIFORMES, Rhea-like Birds. 



Family Eheidae, Eheas. 



Common Rhea Rhea americana (Linn.). 



Wliite Rhea Rhea americana (Linn.) var. 



Great-billed Rhea Rhea macrorhyncha Scl. 



Order STRUTHIONIFORMES, Ostrich-like Birds. 



Family Struthioxidae, Ostriches. 



North African Ostrich . . . .Struth'io camelus Linn. 



Somali-land Ostrich Struthio molybdophanes Reichen. 



South African Ostrich . . . .Struthio ausiralis Gurney. 



Order CASUARIIFORMES, Cassowary-like Birds. 



Family DROMAEiD.iE, Emeus. 



Emeu Dromaeus novae-hoUandiae Lath. 



Family Casuariidae, Cassowaries. 



Ceram Cassowary Casuariiis casuarius (Linn.). 



Violet-necked Cassowary . . Casuarius vioUicoUis Rothsc. 



One-wattled Cassowary .. .Casuarius uniappendiculatus Blyth. 



Bennett Cassowary Casuarius bennetti Gould. 



Order TINAMIFORMES, Tinamou-like Birds. 



Family Tinamidae, Tinamous. 



Rufous Tinamou Rhynchotus rufescens (Temm.). 



Crested Tinamou Calopezus elegans (D'Orb. & 



Geoffr.). 



