CASSOWARY OF NEW SOtTTH wALES. 
*' The wings are so small, as liaidiy to deserve 
the name, and are unfurnished with those 
beautiful ornaments ^^h;ch adorn the wings of 
the ostrich. All the feathers are extremely- 
coarse, but the constru6llon of them deserves 
notice ; they grow in pairs from a single 
shaft, a singularity which the author I have 
quoted has omitted to remark. 
** It may be presumed, that these birds are 
not very scarce, as several have been seen, 
some of them immensely large ; but they are 
so wild, that our fleetest greyhounds are left 
far behind in every attempt to catch them. 
The flesh was eaten, and tasted like beef.'* 
If Captain Tench had turned to the account 
of the Cassowary, instead of the Emu, he 
would have found that Goldsmith has noticed 
the double feathers springing from a single 
shaft. The Emu, as wc have before sug- 
gested, is a different bird. 
It is singular, that the gizzard should be 
described as wanting, in the first Cassowary 
which was shot in New South Wales, and 
that 
