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CASSOWARY. 
The Cassowary, though not so large as 
the ostrich, yet appears more bulky to the 
eye, its body being nearly equal, aud its neck 
sad legs much thicker and stronger in pro- 
portion. The same degree of voraciousness 
which we perceived in the ostrich, obtains 
as strongly here. The Cassowary swallows 
every thing that comes within tlie capacity 
of its gullet. The southern parts of the most 
eastern Indies seem to be the natural climate 
of tlie Cassowary. His domain, if we may 
to call it, begins where that of the ostrich 
terminates. The latter has never been found 
beyond the Ganges; while the Cassowary 
j* never seen nearer than the islands of 
Banda, Sumatra, Java, the Molucca islands, 
and the corresponding ports of the continent 
