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and from individuals of one and the same species. It were perhaps 

 impossible to illustrate this better than by the two following figures. 



Bontekoe's figure of the Dodo (about) 1646. 



Van den Broecke's figure of the Dodo, 1617. 

 However grotesque the first may appear, the resemblance in main 

 character between both and the well-known picture in the British 

 Museum is obvious. All accounts agree, too, as to the local habi- 

 tation of these creatures, a point in which, if it had been a mere tra- 

 vellers' wonder, they could certainly not have done without copying 

 from one another. We do not find the creature met with at one 

 time near the North Pole, at another in the West Atlantic, and at 

 another near the Southern Tropics ; in each case under circumstances 

 of wonder, and referred to some unknown legendary marvel ; while 

 in none was it within actual reach and handling, nor were any or- 



