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of wings — a few bare shafts being visible on the 
Cassowary’s wing — the apparent duplication of each 
feather, the after-shaft or hyporhachis being as long 
as the main shaft, and others, but differ in having no 
helmet, no bare caruncnlated heads and necks, no 
formidable dagger-like claw to the inner toe. The 
Emus are inhabitants of Australia, and have, for 
some years, been bred successfully in Tring Park, 
as well as the Rheas {Rhea americana'), the 
American Ostriches, which agree with the true African 
Ostriches {Struthio) in having well-developed wings 
— although, of course, incapable of flight — broad, 
soft feathers, and in some other points. All these 
are exhibited in this case, as well as the eggs and 
young. 
The next case in the centre passage contains the 
Storks, Herons, Rails, and Divers, 
also the Woodcocks and Snipes, for which there was 
no room among the Charadriidae, which are on the 
other side of this cabinet. Of the Woodcocks there 
are some very beautiful varieties, as also of the Snipes, 
the prettiest one of which is a Russian specimen 
with an extraordinary spotted upperside. There is 
also the dark variety which occurs, apparently, only 
in the British Islands, and mostly in Ireland, known 
as Sabine’s Snipe and for a long time considered to 
form a distinct species. 
