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THE WHOOPING CRANE. 
wattles of a cock. Unlike other birds, the feathers of the 
wings, and other parts of the body, are exactly the same ; 
so that at a distance he looks rather as if he were entirely 
covered with hairs like a bear, than with plumage like a 
bird. The Cassowary eats indiscriminately whatever comes 
in his way, and does not seem to have any sort of predilec- 
tion in the choice of his food. He is a native of the southern 
parts of India ; the eggs of the female are nearly fifteen 
inches in circumference, of a grayish ash-colour, marked with 
green. It has been said of the Cassowary, that he has the 
head of a warrior, the eye of a lion, the armament of a por- 
cupine, and the swiftness of a courser. 
THE WHOOPING CRANE. (Grus Americana.') 
This stately Crane (says Mr. Nuttall), the largest of all 
the feathered tribes in the United States, like the rest of 
its family, dwelling amidst marshes, and dark and desolate 
swamps, according to the season, is met with in almosf every 
part of Nprth America, from the islands of the West Indies, 
to which it retires to pass the winter, to the utmost habitable 
regions and fur countries of the North. A few hybernate in 
the warmer parts of the Union, and some have been known 
to linger through the whole of the inclement season in the 
swamps of New Jersey, near to Cape May. When dis- 
