. A dictionary of birds . , is taken. This bird immediately after the colonizationof New South Wales (in 1788) was found to inhabit the south-eastern portion of Australia, where, according to Hunter { etc. pp. 409, 413), the natives called it Maracry, Marnjang,. Emeu. (From Mosenthal and Hartings Ostriches, etc.) or Maroang; but it has now been so hunted down that not anexample remains at large in the districts that have been fullysettled. It is said to have existed also on the islands of BasssStraits and in Tasmania, but it has been extirpated in both, ^ The obvious misprint of Dro
. A dictionary of birds . , is taken. This bird immediately after the colonizationof New South Wales (in 1788) was found to inhabit the south-eastern portion of Australia, where, according to Hunter { etc. pp. 409, 413), the natives called it Maracry, Marnjang,. Emeu. (From Mosenthal and Hartings Ostriches, etc.) or Maroang; but it has now been so hunted down that not anexample remains at large in the districts that have been fullysettled. It is said to have existed also on the islands of BasssStraits and in Tasmania, but it has been extirpated in both, ^ The obvious misprint of Dromeicus in this authors work [Analyse Jjc,p. 54) has been foolishly followed by many naturalists, forgetful that he correctedit a few pages further on (p. 70) to Dromaius—the properly latinized form ofwhich is Drommus. 214 EMEU without, so far as is known, any ornithologist having had theopportunity of determining whether the race inhabiting thoselocalities was specifically identical with that of the mainland ordistinct.^ Next to the Ostrich the largest of existing birds, theEmeu is an inhabitant of the more open country, feeding onfruits, roots, and herbage, and generally keeping in small com-panies. The nest is a shallow pit scraped in the ground, and fromnine t
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