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Genus LIX. CASSOWARY. 



N" i» Galeated CafTowary. 



THIS genus has a ftraight depreffed bill, which is pointed 

 at the end. 

 At the top of the head an elevated horn or helrriet: on the 

 middle of the neck, two carunculated pendent wattles. 

 Wings very fmall, without feathers, and ufelefs for flight. 

 Thighs bare of feathers above the knee. 

 Toes three in number, and all placed forwards. 



GALEATED 



CASSOWARY. 



Pl. LXXII. 



Description. 



Struthio cafuarius, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 265. 2. — Fri/cb. pi. 105. 



Le Cafoar, Brif. Orn. v. p. 10. pi. I. f. 2. — Buf. Oif. i. p. 464. — PL 



F.nl. 313. 

 Emeu, Eme, or Caflbwary, Raii Syn. p. 36. -^Will. Orn. p. 151. pi. 25. — 



Alhin. ii. pi. 60. — J. F. Milltr, pi. 14, — Gent. Mag. xlii. pi. in p. 



472. 



'T'HIS is a large bird, and not greatly inferior to an Oftricb 

 in bulkj though, from, having a much fhorter neck, is not 

 near fo tall : the length is about four feet, but from the bill to 

 the end of the claws five feet and a half. The bill is four inches 

 and a half long, grey brown, a little notched at the end, the gape 

 very wide : hides the colour of a topaz ; eyelids befet with 

 hairs : the noftrils oblong, placed near the end of the bill : the 

 ears large and open : on the top of the head is a kind of helmet, 



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