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pounds, which, in very hot climates, it is contented with expos- 
ing in the sand to the warmth of the sun, but over which, out 
of the tropics, it broods with great care, defending them cou- 
rageously every where. The Ostrich feeds on grass, grain, &c., 
and so obtuse is its sense of taste that it swallows pebbles, pieces 
of iron, copper, &c. When pursued it dashes stones behind ~ 
it with great violence. No animal can overtake it in the race. 
Struth. rhea, .3(1) Nandou, Churi, &c., Hammer. An. Mus. 
XII, xxxix; Vieill. Galer. 224. (The American Ostrich.) Is 
about one half smaller, with more thinly furnished feathers, of 
a uniform grey colour, and particularly distinguished by its 
three toes, all having nails. Its plumage is greyish, browner 
on the back: a black line along the back of the neck in the male. 
It is as common in the southern parts of South America, as the 
“preceding one is in Africa. When taken young, it is easily 
tamed. Several females, it is said, lay in the same nest, or 
» rather the same hole, yellowish eggs, which are hatched by the 
male. It is only eaten when very young. 
Casvarius, Briss. 
The Cassowaries have wings still shorter than those of the Ostrich, 
and. totally, useless, even in running. There are three toes to all the . 
feet, each furnished with a nail; the barbs of their feathers are so 
poorly provided with, barbulz, that at a distance they resemble pen- 
dent hairs. Two spécies are known, each of which might also con- 
stitute a genus. 
| Struthio casuarius, L.; Emeu,(2) Enl. 313, and better Frisch, 
105.(3) (The Cassowary.) The beak laterally compressed; 
head surmounted by a bony prominence, covered with a horny 
substance; skin of the head and top of the neck naked, of an 
azure-blue and a fiery red colour, with pendent caruncles like 
those of the Turkey; some stiff stems in the wings, without barbs, 
which the bird uses as weapons in combat; nail of the internal 
toe much the strongest. It is the largest of all birds, next to 
the Ostrich, and differs considerably from it in its anatomy, for 
(1) Brisson and Buffon, following Barrére, have improperly applied to it the 
name of Touyou, or rather of J'owiouiow, which belongs to the Jabiru. It is the 
genus Rhea of Brisson. The Portuguese of Brazil have transferred to it the name 
‘of Emeu, which properly belongs to the Cassowary. 
(2) Casswwaris, the Malay name of this bird. Eme, or Emeu, its peculiar appel- 
lation in Banda. 
(S) There is also an excellent figure of it by Marechal in the Menag. du Mus. 
copied Vieill. Galer. pl. 225. 
