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for the sake of their feathers, which are not, however, particularly valuable, 

 although still forming an important article of trade. Sometimes rheas are kept in 

 a domesticated state. The smaller Rhea darwini inhabits Patagonia between the 



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RHEA OR NANDU. 



Rio Negro and the Straits of Magellan, while a third kind, the long-billed rhea 

 (R. macrorhyncha), lives in northern Brazil. Rheas, which constitute an exclusively- 

 South American family (Rheidce), differ from ostriches in that they have three, in 

 place of only two, toes to each foot, which terminate in claws instead of nails; 



