emeu

The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea American ostrich, and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea American ostrich, and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude.

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Among them is the emeu, a kind of ostrich that practically is wingless.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

One such reason is the way in which struthious birds are, or have been, distributed around the antarctic region: as the ostrich in Africa, the rhea in South America, the emeu in Australia, the apteryx, dinornis, &c. in New Zealand, the epiornis in Madagascar.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Perhaps the wind is the chief agent in scattering them, but wild birds, especially the emeu and the turkey, are a good second.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

The Fitzroy wallaby was plentiful, and the Leader shot an emeu.

Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880

Of course there were birds and beasts, and cages populous with monkeys; and there was an emeu -- the weird bird that can not fly, the Australian cassowary.

In the Footprints of the Padres Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859

The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude.

On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 11 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859

The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude.

On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845