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less a bird of pasture than the other, and to 
have an internal conformation at least as dif- 
ferent as its external, is only said to eat roots 
and fruit. The name of Ostrich, in French 
Autruche, is a singular derivative from the 
whimsical Latin mutilation, Ustruthio; itself 
a part of the whimsical Latino-Greek appel- 
lation of ‘ Camel us-struthio,’ or Camel Spar- 
row; the name of Camel being applied to 
its figure, and that of Sparrow, ironically, to 
its size ! 
The elder pair of the Emoos which we 
are looking at were hatched, as the list, or 
catalogue, informs us, at Windsor, and pre- 
sented by His Majesty to the Zoological 
Society, and the younger, by Mr. Herries. 
All these birds, therefore, are perfectly do- 
mesticated. The catalogue seems to repeat 
an old mistake, that it is the male which 
always—that is, exclusively—sits upon the 
nest; but it would rather seem, that, both 
with the Emoo and Ostrich, the males only 
share with the females in that task. The 
female Emoo makes a drumming and very 
peculiar noise, which is one of the distinc- 
tions between the Emoo and the Ostrich. 
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