THE AMERICAN OSTRICH. 



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The three-toed or American Ostrich, the Nandu or Rhea, 

 ranges over a wide extent of country. He is found from 

 the silvas of Brazil to the Rio Negro, which forms the 

 southern boundary of the pampas of Buenos Ay res ; also, 

 in some of the elevated plains of the Peru-Bolivian Cordil- 







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:SASI>V OR KHEA. 



leras ; and as far south as the forty-second parallel. There 

 are at least three species : the Rhea Americana, about five 

 feet high; the Rhea macrorhyncha, noted for its large 

 bill ; and the Rhea Darwinii, which is much the smallest. 

 The American differs from the African ostrich in liavinc: 



