CURSORIAL BIRDS. 539 
maximus, of Madagascar, supposed by some to be the roc 
of the Arabian Nights’ Tales. Of this colossal bird, remains 
of the skull, some vertebra, and a tibia 64 cent. long, have 
been found. The single egg discovered is of the capacity of 
one hundred and fifty hens’ eggs. 
To this order belong the three-toed cassowaries of the 
East Indies and Australia, and the emeu of Australia ; both 
Fig. 461.—Moa, Palaptery», with three Kiwi-kiwi birds.—After Hochstetter, from 
Tenney’s Zoology. : 
of these birds are about 2 metres (5-7 feet) high. The 
South American ostrich (Rhea Americana) with three toes to 
each foot, is a smaller bird, standing 1-3 metres high, run- 
ning in small herds on the pampas. The two-toed ostrich 
(Struthio camelus Linn.), of the deserts of Africa and 
Arabia, now reared for the feathers of its wings and tail, so 
