OSTRICH. 387 



GENUS LXX— OSTRICH. 



1 HE bill in this Genus is straight, depressed like that of a Duck, 

 and rounded at the end. 



Wings small in proportion to the size of the body, and useless 

 for flight. 



Les:s naked above the knees. 



Toes two in number, placed forwards. 



This bird, the Cassowary, and the Rhea were placed by Linnaeus 

 under one Genus, but from their very dissimilar characters we have 

 thought right to keep them separate, 



BLACK OSTRICH.— Pl. cxxxix. 



Struthio Camelus, Ind. Orn. ii. 663. Lin. i. 265. Gm. Lin. i. 726. Scop. i. No. 160. 



Rail, 36. 1. Will. 104. t. 25. Bris. v. p. 3. Id. 8vo. ii. 209. Seba, i. a3. t. 



61. f. 6. Klein, Av. 16. Id. Stem, p. 1. t. 1. f. 1. 2. Id. Ov. 15. t. 1. Gerin. ii. 



29. t. 137, 138, 139. Borowsk. iii. 122. t. 60. Spalowsk. Vog. iii. t. 21.— male. 



Robert, Ic. pl. xiii. 

 Avestruz Africano, Gabin. de Madrid, p. 29. lam. 14, 15. 

 Der Gemeine Strauss, Schmid, Vog. 13. t. 1 . 

 L'Autruche, Buf. i. 398. pl. 29. PL enl. 457.— female. Baud. Orn. V. i. p. 94. pl. 



6. — Sceleton. Tem. Man. Ed. ii. Anal, xcvii. 

 Black Ostrich, Gen. Syn. v. p. 6. pl. 71. Id. Sup. ii. 288. Will. Engl. 149. pl. 25. 



Albin, iii. pl. 53. Brown, III. pl. 16.— male. Gent. Mag. xviii. pl. in p. 5S0. 



Pit/. Mem. pl. p. 214. Phil. Trans, xii. part. 2d. p. 147. Id. xxxiii. p. 223. Id. 



xxxiv. 113. Id. xxxvi. 275. Cheseld. Anat. cap. 5.— Sceleton. Sparrm. Voy, i. 



130. ii. p. 81. Wood's Zoogr. i. p. 460. pl. 21. 



THIS is the largest bird yet known, near eight feet in length, 

 and when standing upright, is from six to eight feet high. The head 

 is small, not unlike that of a Goose ; the bill too, is similar, but less 

 depressed, four inches and a half long, horn-coloured, with a dusky 



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