The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . attendant females of each male depositing their eggs together, commonly to the number of thirty, or even more.] They all want the back-toe. In the Ostrich, the number of phalanges to the two front-toesare four and five; in the Cassowary, [Emeu,] and Nandou, the phalanges of the three front-toes number three, four, and five, respectively. We recognize two genera. The Ostriches (Struthio, Lin.),—Have lax and flexible feathers on the wings, which latter are suft
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . attendant females of each male depositing their eggs together, commonly to the number of thirty, or even more.] They all want the back-toe. In the Ostrich, the number of phalanges to the two front-toesare four and five; in the Cassowary, [Emeu,] and Nandou, the phalanges of the three front-toes number three, four, and five, respectively. We recognize two genera. The Ostriches (Struthio, Lin.),—Have lax and flexible feathers on the wings, which latter are suftlciently long to accelerate their one is acquainted with the elegance of these slender-stemmed feathers, the barbs of which,though furnished with secondary barbules, do not hitch in each other, as is tlie case with feathersgenerally. The beak is horizontally depressed, of mean length, and blunt at the tip; the tongue short,and rounded like a crescent; and the eye large, with its lids garnished with lashes. Their legs andtarsi are very long. They have an enormous crop, and considerable proventriculus between the crop. ( i: t
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