KAGOSHIMA, Ica'go-shema, Japan, a city in the island of Kiushiu, capital of Satsuma province and of the prefectural ken of the same name, on the northwest shore of Kago shima Bay. The town it well built and is an important industrial centre with a considerable export trade. The celebrated Satsuma porce lain is manufactured in suburban Tanoura. Kagoshima was the feudal seat of the powerful Shimadzu daimios, and in 1863 was bombarded and destroyed by the British, owing to the murder of an Englishman; the reigning daimio refusing satisfaction. Here in 1877 Saigo (q.v.) set up the standard of rebellion, and here also he was overwhelmingly defeated a few months later. A great disaster took place on 12 Jan. 1914, when the volcano of Takurajima, situ ated on a small island directly facing the city, after being quiescent for 130 years, burst into flame, rendering 100,000 people homeless and compelling the inhabitants of Kagoshima temporarily to vacate the city. Pop. 75,907.
KAGU, !ago°, the native name of tile re markable bird (Rhinochetus jubatiss) peculiar to New Caledonia, where it was discovered only in 1860 and is now rapidly disappearing. It is the only species of a distinct family most nearly related to the sun-bitterns. The kagu is about the size of a domestic fowl, with short wings, rather long legs, a ralliform beak and a long crest. When the wings are folded, the colors are mottled gray, the wings and tail barred with a darker shade; but when they are spread the wings are seen to be barred and spotted with white and black arranged in a conspicuous pat tern. The kagu is noteworthy for the extraor dinary dances and antics which it performs.