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THE DODO. 



discovered, a? at present but little of Madagascar nas been searched 

 and in that island, if anywhere, it will be found. 



Another bird, the gigantic Dinornis, has been extirpated from the 

 face of the earth by man. This enormous bird, whose leg is rather 

 larger than that of a fossil Elk, and whose head could not have been less 



than ten feet and a half from the ground, was at one time an inhabitant 

 of New Zealand, but has been extirpated for many years, a fact likely 

 to befal the defenceless Apteryx. In the Anatomical Museum at Ox- 

 ford is a cast of a leg of the Dinornis, standing side by side with that of 

 an Ostrich. The leg of the Ostrich is quite insignificant. 



