. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . is good to be eaten, especially if they be young. It would be no difficultmatter to rear up flocks of these animals tame, particularly as they arenaturally so familiar; and they might be found to answer domestic purposes,like the hen or the turkey. Their maintenance could not be expensive, if,as Narborough says, they live entirely upon grass. Like the ostrich, thetouyou is indiscriminately voracious; swallowing stones, iron, and otherhard substances. AVES—EMEU.
. The naturalist's library : containing scientific and popular descriptions of man, quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects . is good to be eaten, especially if they be young. It would be no difficultmatter to rear up flocks of these animals tame, particularly as they arenaturally so familiar; and they might be found to answer domestic purposes,like the hen or the turkey. Their maintenance could not be expensive, if,as Narborough says, they live entirely upon grass. Like the ostrich, thetouyou is indiscriminately voracious; swallowing stones, iron, and otherhard substances. AVES—EMEU. 617 THE NEW HOLLAND This bird has been so scientifically described by Mr Bennett, from speci-mens in the Tower, that we cannot do better than to adopt his description. The distinctive generic characters of the New Holland emeu, which formspart of the ostrich family, and is, with the sole exception of the ostrich, thelargest bird known to exist, consist in the flattening of its bill from abovedownwards, instead of from side to side; in the absence of the bony processwhich crests the head of the cassowary, of the wattles which depend fromhis neck, and of the long spurlike shafts Avhich arm his wings; and in theequal, or nearly equal, length of all his claws. The emeus, however, agreewith the cassowaries in the number of their toes, three on each foot, all ofthem directed forwards, and extremely thick and short, the posterior toe,which is common in most of the order, being in them entirely wanting; inthe excessive shortness of their wings, which do not even, as is the casewith the ostriches, assist them in
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