Step 1 : Introduction to the question "9. Which of these birds is the fastest runner?"
...1. the ostrich 2. the snipe 3. the ptarmigan 4. the cassowary A snipe is a straight-billed gamebird of the sandpiper family. The ptarmigan is a large arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage. The white or nearly white winter plumage turns brown in summer. A cassowary is a large bird found in the East Indies and Australia. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich, has a kind of "horny helmet", and long sharp spines on each wing. It is a shy bird, but, just as the ostrich, a fast runner. The ostrich itself or "Struthio camelus" is the absolute running- champion among birds with a speed of some 72 kms an hour over short distances.