298 CLASS AVES. 



corneous substance. The skin of the head and of 

 the top of the neck is naked, tinted with sky-blue 

 and flame colour, with pendant caruncles, similar to 

 those of the turkey. The wings have certain stiff 

 stems, without barbs, which serve as weapons in 

 fighting ; the claw of the internal toe is much the 

 strongest. This is the largest bird in nature after 

 the ostrich, from which it differs considerably in the 

 anatomy, for in this the intestines are short, and 

 the coeca small. Nor is there the intermediate 

 stomach between the crop and gizzard, and the 

 cloaca is not larger in proportion than in other birds. 

 The cassowary lives on fruits and eggs, but not on 

 grain ; lays green eggs, few In number, which are 

 abandoned, as in the case of the ostrich, to natural 

 heat. They are taken in several of the islands of 

 the Indian Archipelago. 



CassuwariSf the name of this bird in Malay, 

 according to Clusius. Erne or Emeu, is the name 

 peculiar to Banda.* 



New Holland Cassoivary, Lath., Casuarius Novce 

 HollandicBy Lath. Voy. de Peron. Atl. part I. 

 pi. 36, Vieill. Gal. 226.t 



With the bill depressed, and void of the helmet on 



* The Casuarim Emeu, Lath, and Temm. See Miller lUust. t, 14. 

 Albin. ij. t. 60, and Anatomy Grew. Mus. t. 27, and Pitsfield Mem. t. at 

 p. 240. The egg green, Klein Ov. t. 2, rarely white, Sivam. Mm. p. 25. 

 Grunt like a hog ; confined to the torrid zone. 



+ M. Vieillot makes his genus Emou, or Dbomaius, of this species. 



