CASSOWARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
Latham thus characterises this Cassowary. 
It is blackish; it's crown flat; it's body 
bristly; it's head and neck planted with quills; 
and it's legs serrated behind.'' 
In Surgeon White's Journal of his Voyage 
to New South Wales, we are informed that, 
*' on the SOih of February 1788" — it should, 
probably, have been the 2d of March — a New 
Holland Cassowary was brought into camp. 
This bird," he adds, stands seven feet high, 
measuring from the ground to the .upper part 
of the head; and, in everv respect, is much 
larger than the common Cassowary of all 
authors, and differs so much therefrom, in it's 
form, as to clearly prove it a new species. 
The colour of the plumage is greatly similar, 
consisting of a mixture of dirty brown and 
grey; on the belly it was somewhat whiter; 
and the remarkable structure of the feathers, 
in having two quills, with their webs, arising 
out of one shaft, is seen in this as well as the 
common sort. It dliFers materially, in want- 
ing the horny appendage on the top of the 
bead. The head and beak are much more like 
those 
