The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . of bird, ne.\t to the Ostrich, from which it differs considerably in itsanatomy; for it has short intestines an <small cceca, wants the intermediate stomachbetween the crop and gizzard, and its cloacadoes not proportionally exceed that of It lives on fruit and eggs, but not on grain ; and lays dark-green eggs, few innumber, which, like the Ostrich, it abau-dons to the heat of the sun. It is found indiflFerent islands of the Indian Archipelago.
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . of bird, ne.\t to the Ostrich, from which it differs considerably in itsanatomy; for it has short intestines an <small cceca, wants the intermediate stomachbetween the crop and gizzard, and its cloacadoes not proportionally exceed that of It lives on fruit and eggs, but not on grain ; and lays dark-green eggs, few innumber, which, like the Ostrich, it abau-dons to the heat of the sun. It is found indiflFerent islands of the Indian Archipelago. The Emeu of New Holland (CasuarittsyoviT Hollanditt, Latham, {Dromatus yovijeIlollandia, Vieillot]).—.\ depressed beak,with no casque on the head, nor nakedspace except around the eye; the plumagebrown, more dense, and the feathers morebarbed; no caruncles, nor spurs to the rig. in.—.iiemuin of wing; and the nails of the toes neariy equal. Its flesh resembles beef: it is svrifter than the fleetest Greyhoundand the young are striped brown and white. [Either this or more probably an allied species has been 234 AVES. in New Zealand, where some bones of it have been found, and a tradition of its destruction is preserved by theinhabitants.] N, B.—We cannot with propriety admit into this series, species so little known, or so ill-authenti-cated, as those which compose the genus of Dodos (Dtdusy Lin.),—The first species of which {D. inep(us) is only known from the description of it by the early Dutch navigators, preserved in Clusius {Exot. p. 99), and by an oil-paint-ing-, of the same epoch, copied by Edwards, pi. 294 ; forthe description by Herbert is puerile, and all the restare copied from Clusius and Edwards. It seems thatthe species has entirely disappeared, for at the presenttime there is only a foot of it extant in the British Mu-seum, and an ill-preserved head in the Ashraolean Mu-seum at Oxford. The beak appears to be not withoutsome resemblance
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