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: * ; THE NATURAL HISTORY 
“One of the moft renmitkable parts in this bird 
ig its helmet er horn; it goes from the bafe of its 
beak to the top or middle of its head’; it is black. 
before and yellow every where elfe.. 
 'Thé head and -upper part of ‘the neck are co- 
vered with a wrinkled tkin, thinly befet with hairs, 
and tinged with blue, with red, and with purple... 
~ About the middle of the fore part of the neck, 
where the larger feathers begin, are two flethy 
membranes, reunded at the ends, and of a red. and. 
blue ‘colour, . PO sa 
‘The wings are fhorter than the wings of ans 
Oitrich, and without feathers, but they. conitt of 
five bare thafts, like the qi uills of a Porcupine; 
The body is covered with brownith black, 
loofe webbed feathers ; and generally two of ta 
grow from. one fhaft. T he bird has no tail, but. 
the feathers that crow out from the bottom of the” 
back are fourteen inches long, and’ hang down-. 
wards. On the breaft there is a bare callous: — 
“part, that is, a naked bard fkin, on which the: . 
. Caflowary refts its body when it lies down. 
‘| The Dutch fay, that the Caflowary kicks backw 
wards like a horfe ; others that it rufhes forwards,. 
“flriking down and. trampling. upon the perfon who, 
comes againit it. 
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