34 NATURALISTS CABINET. 



Emus at Exeter 'Change. 



sand, and are rendered productive by the heat of 

 the sun alone. 



Tliis latter author further adds, that when the 

 young ones are hatched, they are so familiar that 

 they will follow the first person they meet. " I 

 have been followed myself," says he, " by many 

 of these young ostriches ; which, at first, are ex-r 

 tremely, harmless and simple ; but as they grow 

 older, they become more cunning and distrustr 

 fill, and run so swift that a greyhound can 

 scarcely overtake them." Their flesh, in gene- 

 ral, is good to be eaten, especially if they be 

 young, and it would be no difficult matter to 

 rear up flocks of them tame, particularly as they 

 are naturally so familiar; and they might be 

 found to answer domestic purposes, like the hen, 

 or the turkey. 



Several of these birds are now (1806) in the 

 menagerie at Exeter 'Change. They subsist 

 principally on bread, cabbages, &c. and are tole- 

 rably tame. On my last visit the keeper showed 

 me an egg recently laid by one of the females 

 It is rather smaller than that of the ostrich, and 

 of a beautiful deep green, diversified with minute 

 specks of white. 



THE CASSOWARY. 



THE conformation of this bird gives it an ai* 

 of strength and force, which the fierceness and 





