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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
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
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
Among them is the emeu, a kind of ostrich that practically is wingless.— Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
We have come past the emeu and eagle,— The Book of Humorous Verse
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