364 DR. SCLATER ON THE STRUTHIOUS BIRDS IN THE SOCIETY’S GARDENS. 
a large Kiwi of the size of a turkey were very common in the snow, and that at night 
he had often heard the singular cry of this bird, but that, as he had no dog with him, 
he had not succeeded in getting an example of it. He had, nevertheless, left with some 
natives in that district a tin case with spirits, and promised them a good reward if they 
would get him one of these birds in spirits and send it to Nelson by one of the vessels 
which go from time to time to the west coast.” 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
PLATE LXVII. a. Adult male Struthio camelus, from an example in the Society’s 
Menagerie, received in February 1859 from Morocco. 
PLATE LXVIII. Adult female Rhea americana, from an example in the Society’s 
Menagerie, presented by George Wilks, Esq., July 15, 1856. 
PLATE LXIX. Male Rhea macrorhyncha, from an example in the Society’s Menagerie, 
purchased in November 1858. 
PLATE LXX. Male Rhea darwinii, from an example in the Society’s Menagerie, 
received in October 1858. 
PLATE LXXI. Male Casuarius galeatus, from an example living in the Society’s 
Menagerie, received in 1859. 
PLATE LXXII. Male Casuarius bennettii, from the specimen presented by Dr. G. 
Bennett, F.Z.S., May 17th, 1857. 
PLATE LXXIII. Casuarius bicarunculatus, juv., from the only example known, received 
in May 1860, now living in the Society’s Menagerie’. 
PLATE LXXIV. Casuarius wniappendiculatus, enlarged from a sketch of the bird living 
in Calcutta in 1860, by a native Indian artist. 
PLATE LXXV. Dromeus nove-hollandie, from an example living in the Society’s 
Gardens, 1861, presented by the Marchioness of Londonderry in 
1857. 
PLATE LXXVI. Dromeus irroratus, from a bird, not quite adult, living in the Society’s 
Menagerie in 1861, purchased May 18th, 1860. 
‘ This bird died in November 1861, and was purchased for the National Collection in the British Museum. 
