EMEU. 377 



GENUS LXVIIL— EMEU. 



-DILL straight, depressed, somewhat rounded at the tip. 



Wings useless for flight. 



Lower part of the thighs bare of feathers. 



Legs furnished with three toes forwards, and a knob behind 

 instead of a back toe. 



AMERICAN EMEU.— Pl. cxxxvi. 



Rhea Americana, Ind. Orn. ii. 665. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal, xcviii. 



Struthio Rhea, Lin.i. 266. Gm.Lin. i. 727. Borowsk. iii. 127. 2. Nat. Mis. pl, 72. 



■ notbusj Klein, Ord. Av. p. 17. Id. Stem. Av. p. 1. 



■ Camelus Americanus, Nhandu-guacu, Raii, 36. 2. Will. Orn. 105. Id. 



Engl. 150. 

 Struthio Emeu, Eus. Nieremb. 117. t. p. 118? Johnst. Av. t. 56 ? 

 Le Touyouyou, Bajon, Cay. ii. 263. Buf. i. 452. 

 Le Cheuque, Molin. Chil. 232. Id. Fr. Ed. 241. 



Le Nandu, Churi, ou Autruche, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 239. Ferm. Surin. 142. 

 American Ostrich, Gen. Syn. v. p. 23.— note *. Clavig. Mexic. ii. 290. 293. Falk. 



Patag. 52, 53. & al. Wallis's Voy. 273. Damp. Voy. iii. part i. p. 76. Enc. 



Brit, xvi, 205. pl. 437. Wafer's Voy. 222. 

 American Rhea, or Emeu, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 292. pl. cxxxvii. 



THIS bird, notwithstanding it is sufficiently common in South 

 America, has, till lately, so far escaped the researches of naturalists, 

 as to make it an uncertain, and obscure species. M. Bajon gave us 

 reason to think that it was the same with the Jabiru,* and this 

 mistake was not a little favoured, from Marcgrave, and others, having 

 blended several names, nearly similar, with each other; such as 

 Nhandu-guacu, and Jabiru-guacu ; and Nhandu-apoa for a greater 



* Mem. sur Cay. 

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