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of the [and of Mauritius *, we are told that “ it is no longer found 
“© in the De of France, Bourbon, Rodriguez, or Sechelles, and mutt 
* now be placed among thofe {pecies which have exifted, but have 
“ been deftroyed by the facility with which they were taken. No 
*¢ hope can now be entertained of finding them, but on the fhores of 
* uninhabited iflands.” 
ifland, before the Dutch took poffeflion of it in 1598, as the failors found thereon a 
great number of white fowls without tails, which on that account they took to be 
Savans. Surely thefe birds could mean no other than our Dedo; and if they are 
now extinct it is no wonder, fince their extreme difficulty of moving from place to 
place muft have rendered them an eafy prey to any one who might chufe to knock 
them at head. 
« Heft. of Mauritivs, by Charles Grant, Pict. de Vaux, ato. 1801. 
