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Genus LVIII. OSTRICH. 



N° i. Black Oftrich. 



THE bill in this fpecies is ftrait, deprefied like that of a 

 Duck, and rounded at the end. 



Wings fmall, in proportion to the fize of the body, and ufelefs 

 for flight. 



Legs naked above the knee. 



Toes two in number, and both placed forwards. 



This and the following, with a third, which late obfervations 

 have proved to be of a far different family, were placed by Lin- 

 naeus under one genus. From the very diffimilar characters, we 

 have thought right again to feparate them, according to Brijfon, 

 who has thus done in his Ornithology. 



M ACK O Struthio Camelus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 265.— Seep. Ann. i. N° 160; 



Pl. LXXI. L'Autriiche, Brif. Orn. v. p. 3. pi. 1. f. 1. — Buf. Oif. i. p. 398. pi. 29. — 



PL Enl. 457. (the female). 

 Oftrich, Rati Syn. p. 36. 1. — Will. Orn. p. 149. pl. z<>.<—AlbitL iii.pl. 53. 



— Gent. Mag. xviii. pl. in p. 580. 

 Black Oftrich, Broiun. llluftr. pl. 16. (the male). 



Lev. Muf. 



Description. ^HIS is, without doubt., the largeft bird in the creation : it 

 is near eight feet in length, and when Handing upright is 



from 



