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, in the manner of C 

 in Kurope. 



Tii lin is a beautiful sperie>, about the 



minon Partridge or rather larger, and 



<1 with dilleivnt colours: it is 



a native ot' tin- (ireeian Islands, and is the 

 / rrancol Liiina-us. 



Among the (iallina we must by 



no moans omit that in alar bird the Dodo, 



a very la rue and thick-bodied bird, formerly seen 

 in tin- i>land of Hourbon in the Indian seas, as 

 well as in xnie parts of Africa, but which for 

 nearly two centuries appears to ha\c- eluded all 

 the diligence of naturalists tu detri-t. The only 

 authentic original 1: f the Dodo is a paint- 



ii)Lc preserved in the British Museum, which is 

 said to have been executed from the living bird, 

 brought into Holland bv the Dutch some time 



t 



the d: the Indies by the way of 



the Cape of Good Hope. The bird ap;> 

 to b derably larger than a Turkey, with 



!it, and with a 



large head, an e\tn inely large thick bill, and 

 MT\ sj) ; t, thick legs. A skin of a Dodu was 

 preserved in the Museum of the famous John 



