to the height of near three inches. The iricles are of a bright golden colour. The neck and
head are coated with a bare and wrinkled ikin, of the richeft blue imaginable, and which, on
the back part of the neck, changes to a purplifli red: on each fide of the neck tlie ikin is prolonged
into a kind of pendent narrow wattle, reaching beyond the reft. The middle of the
brcaft is generally bare and callous. This bird is totally deftitute of wings, inftead of which
it has on each fide five or fix fhafts, or very fi:rong and fharp naked quills, of a confiderable
length. The legs and feet are extremely ftout, and of a browniih colour. The Cafl!bwary,
like tlie Oftrich, being utterly incapable of flight, fecures itfelf principally by its fpeed in running.
In its general habits it feems much to refemble the Oftrich. It is very fierce in a wild
ftate; grunts like a hog,*' and kicks with the feet in the manner of a horfe. It feeds on vegetables.
Wlien in a ftate of confinement, is fed principally with bread, apples, &c. From the
general conformity, in point of habit, with the Oftrich, Linn^us was induced to place it with
that bird, under the title of Strutliio Cafijarius; but the accurate Mr. Latham, with perhaps
ftill greater propriety, choofes to make it a feparate genus, and has named it the Galeated Caffowary.
It is in compliance with that name that we have given it the Latin title of Cafuarius
galeatus. The galeated Caflbwary has uniformly been regarded as next in magnitude to the
Oftrich; but in the vaft iiland of New Holland a fpecies has been very lately difcovered which
exceeds in magnitude the common kind: it is deftitute of the helmet, and the wings (if they
can deferve the name) do not confift of ftrong ihafts, as in the galeated Caifowary, but are
covered with foft plumes, fimilar to thofe on the reft of the body. The bird alfo differs in
colour from the common kind; being of a uniform duiky brown.
• Lalham's Synopfis.
Són/^Á-w. OiAcca/raia.