The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . the strongest. It is the largest species of bird, next to the Ostrich, from which it differs considerably in itsanatomy; for it has short intestines an ismall coeca, wants the intermediate stomachbetween the crop and gizzard, and its cloacadoes not proportionally exceed that of otherbirds. It lives on fruit and eggs, but noton grain ; and lays dark-green eggs, few innumber, which, like the Ostrich, it aban-dons to the heat of the sun. It is found indifferent
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . the strongest. It is the largest species of bird, next to the Ostrich, from which it differs considerably in itsanatomy; for it has short intestines an ismall coeca, wants the intermediate stomachbetween the crop and gizzard, and its cloacadoes not proportionally exceed that of otherbirds. It lives on fruit and eggs, but noton grain ; and lays dark-green eggs, few innumber, which, like the Ostrich, it aban-dons to the heat of the sun. It is found indifferent islands of the Indian Archipelago. nie Emeu of New Holland (Casuariusyov<e Hollnndiie, Latham, [Dromaim NoneIlollatuUte, Vieillot]).—A depressed beak,with no casque on the head, nor nakedspace except around the eye; the plumagelirown, more dense, and the feathers morebarbed; no ranmcles, nor spurs to the«ing; and the nails of the toes nearly equal. Its flesh resembles beef: it is swifter than the fleetest Grc\ hound,and the young are striped brown and white. [Either this or more probably an allied species has been extirpated. 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 (Didiis, Lin.),—The first species of which (D. hieptus) is only known from the description of it by the early Dutch navigators, preserved in Clusms (Exot. p. 99), and by an oil-paint-ins:, 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 Ashmolean Mu-seum at Oxford. The beak appears to be not withoutsome resemblance
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