290 
NEW 
HOLLAND 
Cc. 
DESscRIPTION: 
CASS O OWARY Y. 
Genus LAT © CAS "S2O WARS 
Struthio Nove Hollandie, Jnd. Orn. ii. p. 665. 2. 
Southern Caffowary, Nat, Mi/c. vol. iii, pl. 99. 
New Holland Caffowary, Phill. Voy. pl. inp. 271.—White’s Fournal, pl. 
Pp. 129. 
HIS is a large bird, meafuring more than feven feet in length: 
the bill is black: the plumage for the moft part brown and grey 
mixed ; paler on the under parts: the head differs greatly from that 
of the Common Caffowary, being covered with feathers; nor has it any 
helmet or rifing protuberance whatever, as in that -f{pecies: the fea~ 
thers however about the head and neck are of a/hairy texture, and rhe 
fore part of the chin and throat nearly deftitute of any, fo as the 
purple colour of the fkin may be feen through them: the long {pines 
obfervable in the wings of the common fort are here wanting, but in- 
ftead of them are real wings, though of fo fmall a fize as to be ufelefs 
for flight; they are covered with feathers like the reft of the body, 
and when the bird is quite at reft, are fcarcely difcernible therefrom : 
the legs are dufky and ftout, in colour not unlike thofe in the other 
fpecies, but are greatly indented or ferrated at the back part; the 
three toes placed in the fame manner, all forwards: fo far the ex- 
ternal appearance of the bird; internally it is faid to differ from every 
other fpecies, particularly in having no gizzard, and the liver fo {mall 
as not to exceed that of a Blackbird, yet the gall-bladder was large 
and diftended with bile: the crop contained at leaft fix or feven 
6 pounds 
