64 ELEMENTS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
bulk. Yet a Bird of Prey (Harpagornis), as large as an Eagle, 
and with enormous talons, existed there also, and is thought 
to have been powerful enough to have made the smaller 
Moas its prey. Three other noteworthy Birds which have 
become extinct may here also be referred to. The first is the 
Dodo (Didus ineptus), which inhabited Mauritius and became 
extinct by the end of the seventeenth century. The second 
is the Solitaire (Pezophaps sdlitarius), which was larger than a 
Turkey and lived to a somewhat later day than the Dodo, but 
in the island of Rodriguez. The third extinct kind (4pyornis 
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Mantell’s Apteryx (Apteryx mantelli). 
maximus) lived in Madagascar, and may have done so to within 
the last two centuries. It was a huge creature, and Jaid so 
enormous an egg that it may have given rise to the fable of the 
Roe’s egg. Such is the case, because its egg may in early times 
have been an article of commerce; and the judgment that the 
size of an egg is a sure index to the proportions of the parent 
Bird is a very natural judgment, though an erroneous one. 
Other Birds, differing much more than these from all existing 
Birds. became extinct in much more ancient times. Such were 
the Hesperornis, the Ichthyornis, and the Archwopteryx, which 
