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THE DODO. 



questionable ; for although there is no doubt of its having been 

 in former times abundant in some of the islands of the Indian 

 Ocean, it is supposed to have long ago ceased to exist, and is 

 therefore generally considered by naturalists as extinct a species 

 as those animals whose bones are occasionally found in a fossil 

 state in rocks and caves. 



The Dodo. 



