BIRDS. GALLINiE- 65. Struthio, 4^^ 
Feet 3-toed; helmet and dew-laps naked. 
Emeu. CaJ/'oivary. 
Inhabits witliin the Torrid Zone in AJta ; feet long ; feeds 
On vegetables is like the ollrich, unable to fly, but runs 
with great Iwiftnefs ; is very fierce, and grunts like a fwine ; 
eggs greenilh, with deeper fpots. 
EiU and le^s black ; gaf/e very large ; irids topaz. ; eyelids 
hinged; nojlrils nearly at the tip of the bill ; eyes large; 
■ helmet horny, reaching from the bafe of the bill to the mid- 
dle of the crown, 3 inches high, the fore-part blackilb, the 
hind-part yellow ; temples and neck bald, wrinkled, reddilh, 
with a blue or purple tinge, and covered with a few fcat- 
tered hairs ; each fide the neck are 2 pendent caruncles, part- 
ly red, partly blue ; chejl, on which it refls, callous ; fea- 
thers brownilh-black, lax, generally 2 from one lhaft, of the 
rump i,j inches long, pendulous; tail O’, zoings confilling 
of about 3 naked dulky fhafts ; claws ftraight. 
Feet 3-tocd ; crown flat ; fhanks ferrate behind. 
New Holland Caffowary. 
Inhabits New Holland : 7 feet 2 inches long. 
Eill black ; head, neck and body covered with briftly feathers, 
Varied with brown and grey ; threat nakedifh, blucilh ; fea- 
thers of the body a little incurved at the tip ; wings hardly 
vifiLle ; legs brown. 
Feet 3-toed, and a round callus behind. American Oflrick. 
Inhabits South America j nearly as high as a man ; feeds on 
fruits, flelh and flies ; defends itfelf with its feet, and calls 
Its young by a kind of hifs. 
-Head fmall, round, feathered ; bill fliort ; eyes black ; eyelids 
fringed ; neck 2\ feet long ; wings unfit for flight ; back and 
^Ing-coverts black-afh, reft of the body whitilh, fometirnes 
hlack or white ; tail o feathers of the rump long ; legs as 
^ong as the neck. 
66. DIDUS. 
