THE 
SOUTHERN CASSOWARY. 
Generic Character. 
Bill deprefied, Arait, nearly conical. 
Wings extremely fmall, and unfit for flight. 
Feet tridadtylous, with all the toes Handing for¬ 
ward. 
Specific Character, &c. 
DARK-BROWN CASSOWARY with unarmed 
head. 
NEW-HOLLAND CASSOWARY. 
White's Voyage, pi. l. p. 129. 
One of the moft remarkable birds which the conti¬ 
nent of New Holland has yet afforded is a fpecies of 
Caffowary which differs from the common or African 
kind in fo many refpedts as to leave no doubt of its 
being perfectly diftinct. In fize it is confiderably fu- 
perior to the common Caffowary, having been feen of 
the height of at leaf; feven feet. Its general colour is a 
fort of cinereous brown, fomewhat paler beneath. The 
head is definite of that horny creft which fo tlrikingly 
diftinguifhes the African fpecies; and the neck inftead 
of being furnifhed with a wrinkled longitudinal red- 
and-blue lkin and wattles as in that bird, is covered 
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