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GALEATED CASSOWARY, 

 (Casuarius Galeatus.) 



Ca. tiigerf vertice galeaio, corpore setoso, capite colloque supremo 



nudis, ccBrulescentibus, 

 Black Cassowary, with the crown galeated ; the body hairy j 



the head and other part of the neck naked and bluish. 

 Casuarius Emeu. Lath, Ind. Orn.2. 6Q4. 1. — Briss. Orn» 5. 10. 



Rati. Syn. 36. 3. 

 3truthio Casuarius. Linn. Syst. Nat, 1. 265. — Gmel, Syst, Nat. 



1.726. 



Le Casoar. Buf. Ois. 1. 4d4. —Buf. PL Enl. 313. 

 Galeated Cassowary. Alb, 2. pi. dO.—Gent. Mag. 43. pi. in p. 

 471. — Lath. Gen, Syn, 5. 10. pi, 72. 



This enormous bird is thus described by Dr. 

 Latham : " This is a large bird, and not greatly 

 inferior to an Ostrich in bulk, though from having 

 a much shorter neck, is not near so tall : the 

 length is about four feet, but from the beak to 

 the end of the claws five feet and a half. The 

 beak is 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 beak : the ears large and open : on the top of 

 the head is a kind of helmet, beginning at the 

 base of the beak, and reaching to the middle of 

 the crown ; this is three inches high, and one inch 

 broad at the base, but gradually grows thinner, so 

 as the upper part is not more than a quarter of an 



