439 



NEW HOLLAND EMU, 



(Dromiceius Novse-Hollandiae.) 



Dr. nigricans, corpore setoso, capite colloque pennaceis, tibii!? 

 postice serratis. 



Dusky Emu, with the body hairy ; the head and neck feathered ; 



the tibiae serrated behind. 

 Casuarius Novae HoUandise. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 665. 2. 

 Southern Cassowary. Shaw. Nat. Misc. 3. pi. Qg. 

 New Holland Cassowary. Phil. Bat. Bay, pi. in p. 271.— 



White's Journal, pi. in p. 129. — Lath, Si/n. Sup. II, 290. J. 



This singular bird is thus described by Dr. 

 Latham in his second Supplement to the General 

 Synopsis of Birds. " This is a large bird, mea- 

 suring more than seven feet in length : the beak 

 is black : the plumage for the most part brown 

 and grey mixed ; paler on the under parts: the 

 head differs greatly from that of the common Cas- 

 sowary, being covered with feathers; nor has it- 

 a^y helmet or rising protuberance whatever, as 

 in that species : the feathers however about the 

 head and neck are of a hairy texture, and the 

 fore-part of the chin and throat nearly destitute 

 of any, so as the purple colour of the skin may be 

 seen through them : the long species observable in 

 the wings of the common sort* are here wanting, 

 but instead of them are real wings, though of so 



* Casuarius Emeu. 



