THE J" J) 





the manubrium of the breast-bone, a thing of rare occur 

 rch 



In the tinamous of Central and South ' a the tail- 



feathersare in Borne atirely wanting, and the br< 



bone and skull-bones have some anomalous featun 3. 

 all gallinaceous birda have plump . with short beaks 



and small rounded wings, not . In some 



of their cranial characters they are so peculiar that Hu 

 makes them one of his primary divisions of ( arin 



Order 7. Columb(s(D< .). — We now come to bi 



Fig. 306. -The Dodo. FromLQtki ^y. 



01 a higher type, in which the knee and part of the tl 



free from the body, the 1« -z being usually feathered down 

 to the tibio-tarsal joint; tin - are usually on the same 

 level, being fitted for grasping or perchii 



The doves are rapid fliers, but a notable ioniss 



m their extinct ally the Dodo {Did ■ ' s, Fig. . 

 Mauritius, which became extinct on the island of Mauritius 

 in the seventeenth century, while the solitaire, I 



