New York Zoological Society. 
GREAT-BILLED RHEA AND EGGS (Rhea Americana). Length: 4 y 2 feet. Range: 
South American pampas from Paraguay to Patagonia, with a related species in 
Southern Brazil. 
Ralph De Sola, Federal Writers’ Project. 
WHITE RHEA (Rhea 
ROTHSCHlLDl). Length: 
3 feet. Range: Central 
Brazil to Patagonia. 
Few of these birds are 
left today because some¬ 
one invented the feather 
duster, which employs 
the fluffy wing feathers 
of the unfortunate rhea. 
The albinistic variety is 
now almost extinct; sur¬ 
viving birds are con¬ 
fined almost exclusively 
to rhea farms. 
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