"Tha Hijiory of ANIMALS. 
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This bird, when it ftands eredt, is about four feet and a half high, 'and is more 
lingular, in it’s appearance even than the oftrich: it appears at firft fight to be covered 
with hair rather than feathers; and, though it’s legs and neck are long, they are lefs fo 
than in that bird : the body alfo is larger, in proportion, than in the oftrich, and the 
whole bird more robuft. 
The head is fmall, and is ornamented with a kind of comb or creft, not fiefhy as in 
the cock, but bony, hard, and of a reddifh colour; two inches and a half in height, 
and confiderably thick : the ears are large, and are furrounded with a kind of briftles; 
the eyes are very large, and of a remarkably fiery and fierce afpedt : the beak is mo¬ 
derately large, broad at the bafe, and fmaller, and fomewhat hooked toward the 
point. 
The head and neck are almoft naked; they are befet with a number of coarfe, 
large hairs, of a black colour, refembling briftles; but the colour of the lkin is eafily 
feen through thefe, and is bluifh, excepting only on the hinder fide of the lower part 
of the neck, where it is red : on the anterior part there hang two lobes of a fiefhy 
fubftance over the breaft: the opening of the mouth is very wide, extending in the 
manner of that of the oftrich, much beyond the bafe of the beak, it’s angles running 
up almoft to the eyes. 
The body is large and thick; it is covered with a very ftrange and fingular kind of 
plumage, of a very dark brown colour, approaching to black, and having, when feen 
at any diftance, the appearance of hairs rather than of feathers; when nearly ex¬ 
amined, they are found, however, to be genuine feathers, two growing always toge¬ 
ther, and their ftrudture very elegant; they are very long, and extreamly narrow, 
and, when taken off from of the bird, do not fupport themfelves eredt. 
The wings are ftill fmaller, and more imperfedt than in the oftrich• they have, 
indeed, more of the appearance of rudiments of wings, than of any thing that can be 
regularly called by that name : each of them has five quills only, which have more of 
the appearance of the armature of the porcupine, than of any part of the plumage of 
a bird. 
The legs are long, and very robuft; and the toes of each foot three, and very thick 
and ftrong. 
It is a native both of the Eaft and Weft Indies; and all the writers on birds have 
defcribed it. Aldrovand calls it Emeu five Eme 5 Boulius, Emeu vulgo Cafoarius; 
and others, Cafluarius. 
OTIS. 
T H E feet of the Otis are each compofed of three toes, all turned forward: the 
head is naked, or has no comb. There is but one known fpecies of this ge¬ 
nus, and that has been confounded, by thofe who had no regard to the charadteriftic of 
the genera, with the common turky. 
Otis. 26 uG&t‘tl. 
This is a bird more nearly allied to the oftrich and caflowary-kind than people are 
aware, and like them it runs at a prodigious rate, and but rarely rifes on the wing; 
it is of the fize of the common peacock : the head is large, and is well covered with 
feathers, but it has no comb : the eyes are large, and of a very piercing afpedt: the 
beak is fhort, but very robuft ; it is exadtly of the form of that of the common turky, 
thick at the bafe, and pointed and hooked at the extremity : the neck is of no remar¬ 
kable length. 
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