Order CA8UARIIF0RME8 
No. 3. 
Family DROMJSIDjE. 
DROMAIUS PARVULUS. 
KANGAROO ISLAND EMU. 
(Plate 3.) 
Dromaius parvulus Gould, in Broderip’s Penny Cyclop., XXIII., p. 145 (1842), Kangaroo 
Island. 
Dromaius ater Vieillot, Gal. des Ois., II., PI. 226 (1825). 
Dromaius parvulus Gould, in Broderip’s Penny Cyclop., XXIII., p. 145 (1842). 
Dromceus ater (not VieiU.) Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., XLIII., p. 841 (1856) ; Salvador!, Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus., XXVII., p. 588 (1895) ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. B., II., 
p. 1068 (1901) ; Giglioli, Ibis, pp. 1-10 with fig. (1901) ; Hall, Key B. Austr., p. 109 
(1906). 
Dromaius novce-hollandice (part.) Gould, Handb. B. Austr., p. 200 (1865). 
Dromaius ater (not VieiU.) Milne-Edwards et Oustalet, Notices sur Quelques Especes d’Ois., 
pp. 62-67, PI. V. (1893) ; Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris (3) VIII., p. 263 (1896). 
The Black Emu Renshaw, Zool., p. 81 (1903). 
Dromiceius ater (not VieiU.) Oberhohlser, Smiths. Quart., 48, p. 60 (1905). 
Dromaius peroni Rothschild, Extinct Birds, p. 235, PI. 40 (1907). 
Dromceus peroni Mathews, Handl. B. Austral., p. 5 (1908). 
Dromceus parvulus Mathews, BuU. B.O.C., XXV., p. 34 (1910). 
Distribution. Formerly Kangaroo Island ; now extinct. 
Adult. The top of the head is covered with a crest of recurved feathers, which is continued 
on to the occiput and nape, in a band of similar but sUghtly longer feathers. These 
feathers differ in their wooUy nature and their black colour from the brownish hair- 
Uke feathers, and the rather short curly feathers which cover the abdomen- and nape 
of the Australian Emu. The cheeks are not entirely bare, and from the base of the neck 
springs a kind of moustache, which turns backwards and meets the hair-Uke feathers 
covering the ears, while in the Australian Emu a naked band extends, across the lores 
and cheeks to the temples, where it begins to blend with another naked zone surround- 
ing the ear and extending along the sides and the front of the neck. On the contrary, 
in the Emu brought home by the Baudin Expedition, the front of the neck is almost 
entirely covered with hair-Uke, blackish feathers, and the naked zones are narrower 
and turn towards the side of the nape. AU the lower part of the neck is covered 
with a very thick “ rufi ” of blackish, wooUy feathers, very different from those which 
cover the same part of the Australian Emu. The feathers of the body, instead of being 
as in the latter, fulvous and marked with black at the tip and along the shaft, are 
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