THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. 
He thinks that it was a more robust bird than D. ater [parvulus]. 
In the Plate, which is a reproduction of the illustration in Peron’s work, 
the left-hand figure represents, in my opinion, the Dwarf Emu of King 
Island. 
Too little is known of this form to enable the question to be settled as to 
whether it should be regarded as a subspecies of D. parvulus or not. 
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