378 EMEU. 



Jabiru ; and again, Jabiru for a small Species,* which is, according 

 to Barrere, called also Aouarou, by the inhabitants of Guiana. 

 This author too, likens the Nhandu-guacu, or supposed American 

 Ostrich, to a Crane ;f yet adds, that it has somewhat the appearance 

 of an Ostrich. 



The account given by Willughby, from Maregrave, is the best 

 of old authors ; he says, "that this sort is somewhat less than the 

 " African ; the head like that of a Goose, with fair black eyes, a 

 " compressed and flat bill, not very broad, and two inches and a half 

 " long ; the neck about two feet long, which they carry like a Swan 

 " or Stork ; little wings, unfit for flight ; one of which they spread, 

 " and set up as a sail, to assist them in running, which they do with 

 " that speed and swiftness, that a good greyhound can hardly-over- 

 " take them : their whole body is covered with grey feathers, which 

 " are longer and more beautiful on the back : the body, with their 

 " feathers, appears almost round. They have not such a tail, made 

 "up of crested feathers, as commonly represented in pictures of 

 " Ostriches, but stretched forth along the back even to the vent ; 

 " the legs long, the lower about one foot and a half, the upper one 

 " foot ; they have three toes on each foot, armed with thick, black, 

 " but not sharp, claws; one toe standing backward, which is round 

 " and gross, so that they can hardly walk on a smooth or boarded 

 " floor, but easily slip and fall." 



Molina, in his History of Chili, says, it is rather less than the 

 Common Ostrich ; and when standing, the head is elevated from the 

 ground, about the height of a man. The neck two feet eight inches 

 long; the head small, rounded, and covered with feathers; eyes 



* Hist. Bras. 200. 290.— Pison. Nat. Hist. No. 84. 



t Grus cinerea ferrivora. He calls it in another place a Heron. In Barl&us's Account 

 of Brazil, the following occurs, talking of birds, " quaedam volandi impotentia meniora- 

 biles sunt," p. 226, and in Pisov. Hist. Nat. & Med. in the same book adds, et " Stru-. 

 " thiones primarios ambrae griseae praedones," p. 610. 



