They were not larger than so many pullets, although at first sight they appeared to be so from the length of their necks and legs.

They were very beautifully striped, and from their tender state were judged to be not more than three or four days old.

They lived only a few days.
A single egg, the production of a cassowary, was picked up in a desert place, dropped on the sand, without covering or protection of any kind.
Its form was nearly a perfect ellipsis; and the colour of the shell a dark green, full of little indents on its surface.

It measured eleven inches and a half in circumference, five inches and a quarter in height, and weighed a pound and a quarter.

Afterwards we had the good fortune to take a nest.