CASSOWARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
and the original, being sent to England by the 
Governor, as a present to Lord Sidney, was 
deposited, through the medium of Sir Joseph 
Banks, in the colledlion of the late Mr. John 
Hunter. 
Captain Tench, who also mentions this 
bird, in his Narrative of the Expedition to Bo- 
I tany Bay, calls it the E)mu ; a name by which 
ic was very commonly known in New South 
Wales, though it certainly is a Cassowary, 
and not an Emu. 
If we add that gentleman's account, which 
greatly corresponds with the preceding, though 
written first, the reader will, we believe, be in 
possession of all that has been published on 
the subject. 
' The bird which principally claims atten- 
tion, is a species of ostrich, approaching 
nearer to the Emu of South America, than 
any other we know of. One of them was 
shot, at a considerable distance, with a single 
ball, by a convift employed for that purpose 
