N° i. Galeated Cafibwary,
i.
6 ALEATED
CASSOWARY.
F t . LXXH.
DsscaiFTiosr.
TH I S genus has
at the end.
a ftraight deprefied bill, which is pointed
A t the top of the head an elevated horn or helmet: on the
middle of the neck, two carunculated pendent wattles.
Wings very fmall, without feathers, and ufelefs for flight.
Thighs bare of feathers above the knee.
Toes three in number, and all placed forwards.
Stro duo cafuarios, Lin. Sjfi. i. p. 265. 2 .— Fri/rb. pi. 10;.
Le Cafoar, Brif. Or«, v. p. ,0. pi. f. z .-B u f .O i f . i. p. 464.— /./
Enl. 313.
Emeu, Erne, or Caffowary, Ra,j Sjn. p. 36 .— Will. On. p. i ; i . pi 2C
Alti«. ii. pi. 60.-J .F .M ilU r , pi. 14.— Gent. Mag. xlii. pi. in p.
47z* r
T H IS IS a !arSe birc!> and not greatly inferior to an OJlrich
bulk) thouSh> from having a much Ihorter neck, is not
near fo ta ll: the length is about four feet, but from the bill to
the end of the claws five feet and a half. The bill is four inches
and a half long, grey brown, a little notched at the end, the gape
very wide: indes the colour of a topaz ; eyelids befet with
hairs: the noftrils oblong, placed near the end of the b ill: the
ears large and open : on the top of the head is a kind o( helmet,
beginning