439 
NEW HOLLAND EMU. 
(Dromiceius Novae-Hollandise.) 
D^. 'nigricans, corpora seloso, capita colloque pennaccis, tihiis 
postice serratis. 
Dusky Emu, with the body hairy 5 the head and neck feathered •, 
the tibise serrated behind, 
Casuarius Novae Hollandiae. Lath, hid, Orn. 2. 665. 2. 
Southern Cassowary. Shaw. Nat. Misc. 3. pi. 99. 
New Holland Cassowary. Phil. Bot. Bay, pi. in p. 271*-“ 
White's Journal^ pi. in p. 129. — Lath. Syn, Sup. II. 2Q0. 1. 
This singular bird is thus described by Dr. 
Latham in his second Supplement to the General 
Synopsis of Birds. “ This is a large bird, mea- 
suring more than seven feet in length : the beak 
is black ; the plumage for the most part brown 
and grey mixed; paler on the under parts; the 
head differs greatly from that of the common Cas- 
sowary, being covered with feathers; nor has it 
any helmet or rising protuberance whatever,' as 
in that species : the feathers however about the 
head and neck are of a hairy texture, and the 
fore-part of the chin and throat nearly destitute 
of any, so as the purple colour of the skin may be 
seen through them : the long species observable in , 
the wings of the common sort^ are here wanting, 
but instead of them are real wings, though of so 
* Casuarius Emeu. 
