KANGAROO ISLAND EMU. 
“ There is also a mounted specimen in the pubHc Gallery of Zoology bearing 
this very old and partly inaccurate label, ‘ Dromaius ater V., Port- Jackson, 
Australie, expedition du capitaine Baudin,’ and on the reverse this inscription, 
‘ Casoar de la Nouvelle-Hollande Casuarius australis Lath., rapporte vivant 
de Port- Jackson par F expedition du capitaine Baudin, mort en avril, 1822. 
Le squelette est a Fanatomie.’ ” 
Dr. Oustalet points out that, as the mounted specimen stiU retains portions 
of its skeleton, and the skeleton in the Osteological Gallery is complete, it is 
evident that there were two separate examples prepared for the Museum, the 
two birds dying within a few weeks of each other in the Menagerie. 
Dr. Oustalet is of the opinion, and I beheve rightly, that the birds in the 
Paris Museum undoubtedly came from Kangaroo Island, where they were 
procured by Peron, who also visited King Island and I believe the white- 
breasted bird figured in his work is different from the Kangaroo Island bird, 
and was reproduced from Lesueur’s sketch (see under D. minor). 
In the Sale Catalogue of the Bulloch Collection, we learn (p. 75) that on 
Tuesday, May 18th, 1819, the eleventh day of the sale, two Emus were sold, 
viz. : — “ Lot 97. Casuarius Novse-hoUandise of New Holland. Very fine 
specimen. Lot 98. Lesser Emeu, a distinct species from the last.” 
These two birds were sold to the Linnean Society, the first for £10 10s. ; 
the other for £7 10s. The latter is the specimen mentioned by Gould, in 
giving the name of D. parvulus to the Paris Museum bird, which he considered 
to be of the same species, though it might have been one of the birds seen by 
Latham, which I think came from King Island. 
What ultimately became of these Emus I do not know, for the late 
R. Bowdler Sharpe told me that no specimen came to the British Museum 
when the Linnean Society made over its collection of mounted birds 
in 1863. 
Mr. Broderip* quotes Gould’s MS. and observes : — “ But one species of 
Dromaius has hitherto been recorded ; but the indefatigable zoologist Mr. 
Gould has arrived at the safe conclusion that a second species has existed, 
if it does not still exist, though he has his fears that it may be extirpated. Two 
specimens at least, he kindly informs us, exist in the Museums ; one at the 
Jardin des Plantes, and the other in the Linnean collection. Mr. Gould, to 
whom we may look for a speedy publication of the characters of this new 
and most interesting addition of the Struthionidce, has in his MS. designated 
this smaller species as Dromaius parvulus, and has placed that name on the 
bird in the Paris Museum. By his liberahty we are permitted to lay this 
valuable information before our zoological readers.” 
* The Penny Gyclopoedia, Vol. XXIII., p. 145 (1842). 
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