CASSOWARY. 381 



GENUS LXIX— CASSOWARY. 



1 Galeated )| 2 New-Holland || 3 Van Diemen's 



1HIS Genus has a straight, depressed bill, which is pointed at 

 the end. 



Neck more or less bare of feathers. 



Wings very small, and useless for flight. 



Thighs bare of feathers above the knee. 



Toes three in number, and all placed forwards. 



1— GALEATED CASSOWARY— Pl. cxxxvii. 



Casuarius Emeu, Ind. Orn. ii. 664. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. xcviii. 



Struthio Casuarius, Lin. 265. Gm. Lin. i. 726. 



Casuarius, Casoar, Bris. v. p. 10. Id. 8vo. ii. 212. Raii, 363. Will. 105. t. 25. 



Frisch, t. 105. Klein, 17. Id. Stem. p. 2. Id. Ov. t. 2. Gerin. ii. 28. 1. 136. ' 



Borowsk. iii. 128. 3. Nat. Misc. pl. 297. 

 Le Casoar, Bvf. i. 464. Pl. enl. 313. Robert, Ic. pl. ix. 

 Der Gehaubte Kasuar, Schmid, Vog. p. 14. t. 2. 

 Galeated Cassowary, Gen. Syn. v. p. 10. pl. 72. Albin, ii. pl. 60. Will. Engl. 151. pl. 



25. J. F. Miller, III. t. 14. Gent. Mag. xliii. pl. p. 471. Pit/. Mem. pl. p. 240. 



Grew's Mus. pl. 27. — the Viscera. Ogilb. Chin. 2d part, pl. in p. 59. 



THIS is a large bird, and not greatly inferior to an Ostrich in 

 bulk ; though, having a shorter neck, does not appear so tall ; the 

 length about four feet, but from the bill to the end of the claws, 

 five and a half. The bill is about four inches and a half long, grey 

 brown, a little notched at the end, the gape very wide ; irides the 

 colour of a topaz; eyelids beset with hairs; the nostrils oblong, 

 placed near the end of the bill ; the ears large and open ; on the 

 top of the head is a kind of helmet, beginning at the base of the bill, 

 and reaching to the middle of the crown ; this is three inches high, 



