CASSOWARY OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 
by the governor: it's weight, when compleat, 
was seventy pounds ^ and it's length, from the 
end of the toe to the tip of the beak, seven 
feet two inches^ though there was reason to 
believe it had not attained it's full growth. 
On disseftion, many anatomical singula- 
rities were observed : the gall-bladder was re- 
markably large, the liver not bigger than that 
of a barn-door fowl J and, after the stri6lest 
search, no gizzard could be found. The legs, 
which were of a vast length, were covered 
with thick strong scales, plainly indicating the 
animal to be formed for living in desarts; and 
the foot differed from an ostrich'^s, by forming 
a triangle, instead of being cloven. 
** Goldsmith, whose account of the Emu is 
the only one I can refer to, says, that " It is 
*' covered from the back and rump with long 
•* feathers, which fall backward, and cover 
•* the anus; these feathers are grey on the 
*' back, and white on the belly/* 
" Th» 
