REMINISCENCES FROM THE MELBOURNE ZOO. 
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The emu is a native of Australia only; the cassowary is found in the 
Malay States and in New Guinea. The New Guinea species is much 
smaller than the Australian one, and it makes most excellent eating. 
Mrs. Lett (daughter of Colonel Honman, A.A.M.C., of Melbourne), who 
lives in British New Guinea, told me how her natives shot cassowaries 
for her meals, and how delicate the flesh was to eat. But they are not 
as plentiful in Australia as in New Guinea, and so we look upon those in 
the Zoo as rarities. 
THE FOOLS OF THE FAMILY. 
Cassowaries differ from the emus in their queer, horny heads, and 
their brilliant wattles that are very like the turkey gobbler’s. But 
Self-sufficient. 
although they have all the extra room in their heads for brains, they 
are not nearly as clever as the emus, and seem, indeed, to be very stupid. 
The only time one has been noticed to show either pleasure or resent- 
