Order CA8UARI1F0RMES 
No. 2. 
Family DROMMIDM. 
DROMAIUS NOV^-HOLLANDIiE DIEMENENSIS. 
TASMANIAN EMU. 
(Plate 2.) 
Drom^us DIEMENENSIS Le Souef, Bull. B.O.C., XXI., p. 13 (1907), Tasmania. 
Emu Jeffreys, Van Dieman’s Land, p. 99 (1820) ; Widowson, Present State of Van Diemen’s 
Land, p. 181 (1829) ; Backhouse, Xarr. Visit Austr. Col., p. 212 (1843) ; Gimn, in 
West’s Hist, of Tasmania, I., p. 330 (1852) ; Campbell, Xests and Eggs Austr. B., 
p. 1069 (1901). 
Dromaeus novae hollandiae (not Latham) Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. Mus. Frankfurt, p. 249, 
No. 3610 (1891). 
Dromceus diemenensis Le Souef, Cat. Austr. B. Eggs and Nests, p. 23 (1904) ; id., Bull. 
B.O.C., XXI., p. 13 (1907) ; Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 5 (1908). 
Distribution. Formerly Tasmania ; now extinct. 
Adult female. The general colour above is ashy-grey ; the feathers of the back are hnear 
in shape and tipped with black or reddish-brown, which gives a streaked appearance 
to the upper side ; the sides of the body and feathers of the wings are grey ; the 
feathers of the lower back, rump, and tail are more elongated and disintegrated, being 
of a pale brown intermixed with a dark shade of the same colour ; the head and 
neck are covered with short, down-like plumes, which are black on the crown and 
hind-neck, somewhat paler on the sides of face, and ashy-grey or whitish with minute 
black, hair-hke points on the throat and fore-neck ; the under-surface of the body 
is grey, paler than that of the upper-surface, the feathers being shorter on the 
breast and abdomen, but becoming longer on the under tail-coverts, which are 
darker in colour, stiff er in texture and more disintegrated, hke those of the tail. 
Total length, about 167 cm. ; culmen, 95 mm. ; tarsus, 355 ; middle toe and 
claw, 145. 
A second example of this species in the British Museum is similar in colour of 
plumage, but not quite so dark on the sides of face and ear-coverts. It also shows 
some shght variations in the measurements. Culmen, 97 mm. ; tarsus, 325 ; middle 
toe and claw, 153. 
Nest. Probably the same as that of D. novce-hollandioe. 
Eggs. An egg in the collection of the British Museum, presented by Dr, Milhgen, from 
Tasmania, appears to be somewhat smaller than those of D. novce-hollandice and more 
finely granulated. The colour is deep dark green, and the measurements are 5 inches 
by 3.1 inches, A second egg from Tasmania in the same collection, presented by 
Mr. R. J. Mercer, is larger, paler in colour, and more coarsely granulated. The 
measurements are 5.2 inches by 3.45 inches. 
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