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Der Casuar von Neu-Holland
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Birds LXXVII. Vol. VI. No. 41., THE CASUAR OF NEW-HOLLAND., The Casuar of New- Holland was but lately the forepart of the neck a great whitifh roll, difcover'd on that great Archipel of the South- Tho' it cannot fly, yet it runs with extraorfea, and the neweft French voyage of difco- dinary quicknefs, and on account of its wildvery gives us the following excellent picture nefs is difficult to be tam'd. Its flefh being of it. This Cafuar confiderably differs from favoury, it is hunted; the eggs too are enthe Afiatick, which we became acquainted joyd. The young ones in the firft month of with Vol. I. No. 3. of our Gallery. The Ca- their age are brown, with white ftreaks, as Juar of New- Holland (Cafuarius novae Hoi- we fee them here depicted before their molandiae) has a length of 7 feet, being coverd ther (Fig. 2.) The next month they become all-over with grey-brown long briftly fea- quite grey. The Cafuar of New-Holland as theirs, which in the male (Fig. 1.) form in well as the Afiatick feeds upon vegetables.
