. A dictionary of birds . s the main shaft—a feature noticed in the case of eitherform so soon as examples were brought to Europe. The externaldistinctions of the two families are, however, equally plain. TheCassowaries, when adult, bear a horny helmet on their head, theyhave some part of the neck bare, generally more or less ornamentedAvith caruncles, and the claw of the inner toe is remarkablyelongated. The Emeus have no helmet, their head is feathered,their neck has no caruncles, and their inner toes bear a claw ofno singular character. ^ Ann. and Macj. Nat. Ilist. ser. 4, xx. \t. .000. Cas
. A dictionary of birds . s the main shaft—a feature noticed in the case of eitherform so soon as examples were brought to Europe. The externaldistinctions of the two families are, however, equally plain. TheCassowaries, when adult, bear a horny helmet on their head, theyhave some part of the neck bare, generally more or less ornamentedAvith caruncles, and the claw of the inner toe is remarkablyelongated. The Emeus have no helmet, their head is feathered,their neck has no caruncles, and their inner toes bear a claw ofno singular character. ^ Ann. and Macj. Nat. Ilist. ser. 4, xx. \t. .000. Cashew-bird.(After Swainson.) CASSOIVAJ^Y 79 The type of the Casuariidm is the species named by LinnaeusStruthio casuariiis and by Latham Casuarius emeu. Vieillot sub-sequently called it C. galeatus, and his ejDithet has been verycommonly adopted by waiters, to the exclusion of the older specificappellation. It seems to be peculiar to the island of Oeram, andwas made known to naturalists, as we learn from Clusius, in 1597,. Ceraji by the first Dutch expedition to the East Indies, when an examplewas brought from Banda, whither it had doubtless been conveyedfrom its native island. It was said to have been called by theinhabitants Emeu, or Ema, but this name they must have hadfrom the earlier Portuguese navigators.^ Since that time examples ^ The figure is taken, hj permission, from Messrs. Mosenthal and HartingsOstriches and Ostrich Farming (London : 1877). It is known that the Portuguese preceded the Dutch in their voyages tothe East, and it is almost certain that the latter were assisted by pilots of the 8o CA T-BIRD—CECOMORPH^ have been continually imported into Europe, so that it has becomeone of the best-known members of the subclass Ratitse, and adescription of it seems hardly necessary. For a long time itsglossy, but coarse and hair-like, black plumage, its lofty helmet,the gaudily-coloured caruncles of its neck, and the four or fivebarbless quills which repre
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