5j MANUAL OF ZOOLOGY. 



Unlike New Zealand, where there is the Apteryx, Madagascar 

 itself has no living wingless birds ; but in the neighbouring 

 island of Mauritius, the Dodo has been exterminated less than 

 three hundred years ago ; and the little island of Rodriguez, in 

 the same geographical province, has in a similar period lost 

 the wingless Solitaire (Pezophaps\ 



