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GALEATED CASSOWARY* 
(Casuarius Galeatus.) 
Ca. niger, vertice galeato, corpore setoso, cnpite collogue supremo 
nudisy caerulescentibus. 
Black Cassowary, with the crown galeated ; the body hairy ; 
the head and other part of the neck naked and bluish. 
Casuarius Emeu. Lath. Ind. Orn.2. 664. 1. — Briss. Orn. 5. 10. 
Ruii. Syn. 36. 3. 
Struthio Casuarius. Linn. Syst. Nat, 1. 265. — Gmel. Syst. Nut. 
1.726. 
Le Casoar. Buff. Ois. 1. 464. — Btff. PI. Enl. 313. 
Galeated Cassowary. Alb. 2. pl. 60. — Gent. Mag. 43. pi. in p. 
471. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 5. 10. pl. 72. 
This enormous bird is thus described by Dr. 
Latham : “ This is a large bird, and not greatly 
inferior to an Ostrich in bulk, though from having 
a much shorter neck, is not near so tall : the 
length is about four feet, but from the beak to 
the end of the claws five feet and a half. The 
beak is four inches and a half long, grey brown, a 
little notched at the end, the gape very wide : 
irides the colour of a topaz : eyelids beset with 
hairs : the nostrils oblong, placed near the end of 
the beak : the ears large and open : on the top of 
the head is a kind of helmet, beginning at the 
base of the beak, and reaching to the middle of 
the crown ; this is three inches high, and one inch 
broad at the base, but gradually grows thinner, so 
as the upper part is not more than a quarter of an 
