VOYAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES, 
bird. To this liver was joined a large gall-bladder, well 
diftended with bile. The crop, or ftomach, was filled 
with at leaft fix or feven pounds of grafs, flowers, and a 
few berries and feeds. The inteftinal canal was at leaft 
fix yards long, very wide, and of a regular cylindrical fliape 
from the opening of the ftomach to the vent. The heart 
and lungs were feparated by a diaphragm or midriff, and 
bore a tolerable proportion to the fize of the bird. The 
flefii of this bird was very good, and tafted not unlike 
young tender beef. 
This bird is fuppofed to be not uncommon in New 
Holland^ as it has been frequently feen by our Settlers 
both at Botany Bay and Port Jachfon^ but is exceedingly 
fhy, and runs fafter than a greyhound. One of them 
however has been fliot*. 
March 9th. The governor, with two long boats manned 
and armed, returned from Broken Bay, fituated a little to the 
northward, which he had been exploring for feveral days. 
It affords good flielter for fhipping, and the entrance is bold ; 
* A drawing was taken from this bird, of which an engraving is annexed. It has 
been lately fent to England by the governor, as a prefent to Lord Sydney, who, 
through the medium of Sir Jofeph Banks, has depofited it in the colledions of 
Natural Hiftory of Mr. John Hunter in Leiceder Square, 
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