. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. RUN NEKS 289 The voice of the Emu is a kind of low booming sound. The eggs are six or seven in number, of a dark green color, and are much esteemed by the natives as food. When the natives take an Emu, they break its wings, a curious custom, of no per- ceptibk. utility. Young men and boys are not permitted to eat the flesh of this bird. The ^This extraordinary bird, whose name is derived from the apparent abse
. Illustrated natural history : comprising descriptions of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., with sketches of their peculiar habits and characteristics . Zoology. RUN NEKS 289 The voice of the Emu is a kind of low booming sound. The eggs are six or seven in number, of a dark green color, and are much esteemed by the natives as food. When the natives take an Emu, they break its wings, a curious custom, of no per- ceptibk. utility. Young men and boys are not permitted to eat the flesh of this bird. The ^This extraordinary bird, whose name is derived from the apparent absence of wings, those members being merely rudimentary, inhabits Australia and the islands of New Zealand. It conceals itself among the densest fern, and when hunted by dogs, it hastens to seek a refuge among rocks and in the chambers which it excavates in the earth. In these chambers its nest is made and the eggs laid. The natives hunt it with great eagerness, as the skin is used for the dresses of chiefs, who are so tenacious of them that they can hardly be persuaded to part with a single skin. The employed to make artificial flies. When attacked it defends itself by rapid and vigorous Strokes with its powerful feet. The Dodo.—This singular bird, which is supposed to be extinct, was discovered at the Mauritius by the earlier voyagers. For many years their accounts of the Dodars were supposed to be mere flights of fancy. Lately, however, the discovery of several relics of this bird in various countries has set the question at rest. Not so the question of the proper position of the bird. Some think it belongs to the pigeons, and some to the ostriches. In the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, Eng- land, are a head and foot of the Dodo, sole remnants of a perfect specimen known to have existed in 1700; and in the same place, in the year 1847, during the meet- ing of the British Association, were gathered together ihe whole of the existing remains from every country. 25 T.
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