THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
neat cottage. Hugh Germain came to Van Diemen’s Land with Colonel 
Collins at the first settlement of the colony. He was a private in the Marines, 
and was for many years employed in hunting kangaroos and Emus for 
provisions, which the officer, whose servant he was, received from him, and sold 
to the Government at Is. 6d. per pound. Germain, assisted by two prisoners, 
returned 1,000 pounds per month, on an average. Though Emus are now 
rarely seen on the island, at that time they were frequently met with about 
New Norfolk, Salt Pan Plains, the Coal River, and Kangaroo Point.”* 
The bird figured and described is from a skin in the British Museum. 
There are only three skins known : two in the British Museum and one in 
the Frankfort Museum in Germany, f The attitude of the bird figured is 
taken from a photograph from life of an example of D. novce-hollandicBy and 
depicts the bird rising just before it stands upright. The photograph was 
lent me by the Hon. Walter Rothschild. 
* James Backhouse, Narr. Visit Austr. Col., p. 212 (1843). 
f This skin was chronicled by Dr. Hartert (l.c.) though at that time without any specimens to compare 
it with, he was not aware of any difference between it and D. novos-hoUdandicB. 
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