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the head, round the ear only is naked ; the plumage 

 is brown, thicker, and the feathers more bearded 

 than in the last ; there are, moreover, neither carun- 

 cles nor alar spines ; the claws are nearly equal. The 

 flesh is like beef. This bird runs faster than the 

 fleetest greyhound. The young are barred with 

 brown and white. 



N.B. I cannot insert herein species so little known, 

 or even little authenticated, as those which compose 

 the genus Didus of Lin. 



The first of these, Hooded Dodo, Lath. (^Diduslnep- 

 tuSy) is known only by a description made by the ear- 

 liest Dutch circumnavigators, and preserved by Clu- 

 sius, Exot. p. 99, and by an oil painting of the same 

 period, copied by Edw. pi. 294 ; for the description 

 of Herbert is puerile, and all the others are copied 

 from Clusius and Edwards. It seems that the entire 

 species has disappeared, and nothing of it is now 

 preserved but a foot, which is in the British Mu- 

 seum, (iS'/t. Nat. Mis. pi. 143,) and a head in a bad 

 state in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, (id. ib. 

 pi. 166.) The bill is not without some similitude 

 to that of the penguins, and the foot would resemble 

 that of the aptenodytes, if it were palmated. 



The second species, the Solitary Dodo, Lath. 

 (Didus SoUtaj'ius), rests only on the testimony of 

 Leguat. Voy. I. pi. 98, who has disfigured the best 

 known animals, such as the hippopotamus and the 

 lamantin. 



Tlie third, Nazarene Dodo. Lath. (Didus Naza- 



