I am an emu, and I am one of the lowest members of the great class of warm-blooded animals, which are popularly known as quadrupeds, but which scientific men call mammalia. I am an emu, and my scientific name is
Comes australis. I am an inhabitant of the great southern continent of Australia, and I range from north to south, between the parallels of 22 and 47 degrees of latitude. The emu does not confine itself to the interior of the country, but comes occasionally, in dry seasons, even to the shores of the sea. The limits of my wanderings are, however, pretty well defined, for I never go far to the westward of the 141st degree of east longitude, nor to the eastward of the 107
