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Ostrich at Exeter 'Change. 



fond, that particular tribes have acquired the 

 name of Struthophagi, or ostrich-eaters. Even 

 the Romans appear to have considered it as a 

 dainty, for Apicius has left a receipt for making 

 a particular sauce for the ostrich; and it is re- 

 corded of Heliogabalus that he had the brains of 

 six hundred of these animals, at a feast, served 

 up in one dish. 



A remarkably fine ostrich brought from Goree, 

 in the Alexander, by Captain Gore, has been re- 

 cently added to the collection of animals in Ex- 

 eter 'Change. It feeds principally upon bread 

 and cabbages, and is so perfectly tame that even, 

 strangers may handle it without the least danger. 



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THIS bird is a native of the New Continent, 

 and is inferior in size to none but the ostrich, to 

 which indeed all travellers have been more desi- 

 rous of approximating its affinities than in point- 

 ing out its peculiarities. It principally inhabits 

 the banks of the Oroonoko, Guiana, the inland 

 provinces of Brasil and Chili, and the immense 

 forests contiguous to the mouth of the river 

 Plata. They were formerly in many other parts 

 of South America, but as population increased, 

 and the inhabitants multiplied, these timid ani- 

 mals, at least such as could escape the destruc- 



