the Andes. In height it is nearly equal to a 

 mail; its neck is two feet eight inches long, and 

 its legs of the same length ; its head small and 

 round, and covered with feathers ; its eyes and 

 eyelids are blacky and furnished with eyebrows; 

 its bill is short and broad like thit of the duck, 

 and the feet have three toes entirely separate 

 before, and the vestige of a fourth behind ; its 

 tail is composed of several short feathers of an 

 equal length, which grow out of the rump. Its 

 wings are eight feet in length from their extre- 

 mities, but not calculated for flight, owing to the 

 great fiexibility and weakness of the feathers. 

 The plumage of the back and wings is of a dark 

 .grey, but that of the other parts of the body is 

 V. bite. Among these birds are found some that 

 are entirely whi>!e, and others tliat arc black, but 

 I consider Ihcm merely as varieties. 



The clienque has not, like the African ostrich, 

 a horny subfetaacc upon its v/ings, iiar callosities 

 on the sternum, br.t it is quite as voracious, and 

 swallows vvhatever is ofrercd it, even iran. Its 

 favourite food is flics, wliich it catches with 

 much dexterity. It has no defence but its feet, 

 wliicli it employs ag-ainiii tlose who molest it. 

 Its whi-jtle, when it calls its young, resembles 

 that of a man. it lays from forty to sixty eggs 

 in a careless manner iipon the ground ; they are 

 wcii tasted, and so large that they will contain 

 .il){;i;t two pounds of liquor. The featiiers are 



