DID 
According to Edwards, this bird is rather larger than the 
{wan, and nearly three feet in length. The bill is ftrong, 
large, and hooked at the end; the gape ftretches beyond the 
eyes, and is of a pale blue colour, except the end of the upper 
mandible, which is yellowifh, and a red {pot on the bend of 
d of the lower blackith; irides white ; the general 
e plumage cinereous, and foft to the touch 3; the 
thighs whitish ; the head large, and feems as it 
i bla ck hood orcowl; the wings are very 
fhort, and of a yellowifh afh-colour ; the tail-feathers curled, 
ftand upon the rump, and incline to yellow, like the wings ; 
the legs have four toes, three before, and one behind, and are 
ale ftout, fhort, and yellowifh, and armed with black 
nek affirms that the didus or dodo family has no tail; 
at the extremity 
higher upon 
d affuredly from their fituation rather deferve the 
fame writer obferves 
: upon 
what authority this writer [peaks we cannot prefume to de- 
eae but the fame affertion has been fince made by Son- 
nin re aware that an opinion did prevail to che ef- 
feet, till the recent difcovery made in the Britifh Mufeum, 
appea 
o difcountenance that idea 
oe only vifible but ee! conf{picu 
OLITARIUS. V grey aad Giaee ; wings fhort and 
terminating in a sounded knob. Lath. Didus Solitarius,Gmel. 
—Le Solitaire, Buff.—Solitary Dodo. 
Nearly as large as the former. This {pecies is an inhabit- 
ant of the ifle of Rodrigue, where it is not uncommon, but 
never appears in large flocks, fcarcely more than two being 
ever found together: it makes its neft in retired places of the 
leaves of the palm, about eighteen inches in thicknefs, an 
lays one egg, which is larger than that of the goofe. The 
male fits in his turn, or ftands on the wat nd will n 
fuffer any bird to approach ais a moderate diftance of the 
neft while the hen is fitting, which continues for fe e 
September, being then very fat, and the young birds in par- 
ticular much eiteemed at that time for the table. 
This bird bears fome refemblanee to the turkey; the legs 
are as in that bird, but longes, and the bill is more bent in 
proportion. The neck is of a proportionable length, and the 
-eyes black and lively: the general colour of the plumage is 
grey and brown mixed, and it has {carcely any tail : 
utiful. 
i ' br the feathers on each fide enlarge into two 
white tufts: the feathers of the thighs are rounded at the 
end like fheils, aa this conftitutes the principal character of 
the {peci 
NaZAREN Body entirely downy and black. Lath. 
—Didus nazarenus, Gmel.—Oifeau de Nazareth, Buff.— 
Nazarine Dodo. 
This is rather larger than the {wan: the bill is a little bent 
downwards and large; and inftead of feathers the whole 
body is covered with a black down: the wings confilt of fea- 
thers, and there are fome frizzled feathers upon the rump 
which fupply the place of a tail: the legs are long and {caly, 
and, unlike the ane mer birds, there are only three toes 
on each foot inftead o 
The f{pecies was met with j in the ifle of France, and is 
ea the 
a, the toe oa in cicte lea boas 
bo 
ke 
It is referred by Dr. Smith to Trichofomum, 
d DIDYMOTIC 
DID 
defcribed by Caifche a French writer. This bird forms its 
neft of leaves and dry herbs in the forefts on oe ground, and 
lays only a fingle egg, which is large and w ; 
“‘DIDWANA, in Geogr aphy. a town . Hindo oftan, inthe 
country ot ie ere; 30 miles N. E. of Nagore, and 51 N. 
of Agime 
DIDYMA, a fountain of Greece, in Theflaly—Alfo, 
two {mall iflands; near that > ela —A'fo, one of the 
Eolian ifles near Sicily. — Alfo, a town of Africa in Libya. 
alla. YMAUS, in Mythology, an appellation given to 
Caro. in Botany, (from dsduyos, a tavin, and 
ec man, in allufion t o the two anthers upon one epee ) 
(Synzyganthera, Ruiz. and Pavon. 
0.) Cit and order, Pee Wana 
on 
h. "Catkin eplindria Hy imbricated {cales, bear-~ 
ing one as well as female flow 
United Fl. Cal. ie poe Cor. deeply four-cleft. 
Filament folitary, bearing two anthers at its fummit. Ger- 
men fuperior. Styles three, very fhort. Berry with three cells. 
and three feeds. 
Female, Cal. and Cor. with Styles and Berry as in the 
aie 
D. purpurea, Willd. (Synzyganthera parparen ; Ruiz. 
| ‘avon. Sylt. Veg Peruv. v 
oods in Peru 
ne 
en characters, very properly changing their uncouth name, 
s it had not as yet found its way into any book in common ufe. 
* DIDY MELES. (from d:dupos, a twin, and pmric, an apples 
Hara as we prefume, the ft grows in pairs.) Aubert 
Hitt. Inf. Afr. 23. t. 3. d. Sp. Pl. v.4. 648. Clafs 
and ie h Male Monandvia, on Ord. Amentacee ? 
Eff. Ch. Male, Flowers in pairs, joined at the bafe. Cal. 
afcale. Cor. none. Anther feffile. 
Tem Cal. afcale. Cor. 
, Fli in “ irs, laa at the bafe. 
none. Sryleno e. Stigmia of two lobes. a upa with one feed. 
Titel ae Willd, loc 
“A tall t ni found in Madagafear. "The leaves are alters 
nate, ftalked, oblong, tapering at the bafe, entire, veiny. Mal 
flowers panicled, female ones f{piked. Flowers alwaysin pairs.”? 
Willd 
DIDYMI, Aiduuo, the fame with gemelli, or fwin 
Divym1, in Ancient Geography, mountains of Cees, im 
Theflaly.—Aifo, a gulf of the ifle of Crete. 
DIDYMODON, in Botany, an Hedwigian genus of 
moffes, the teeth of whofe fringe are approximated in a 
which fee 
OS, in Ancient Coe: a {mall towa 
of Thrace, near the river Hebrus.—Alfo, a place of Afie 
Minor, in Cari 
DIDYMUS, i in Biography, a grammarian of Alexandria, 
who flourifhed in the age of Auguftus, and who is celebrated 
for having compofed nearly four thoufand books, none of 
which have come downto us. Seneca {peaks of the fubje&ts 
which Didymus difcuffed as trifling in themfelves, or, as he 
fays, fubjeéts which are ee or which ought to be for« 
gotten if they were know 
IDYMUS, of Alexands, prefident of the sgl hes 
{chool in that city, flourifhed in the fourth century. 
‘gently Gade the f{criptures of t New Tefta~ 
ment, on which he wrote feveral judicious aa learned com- 
4H2 mentaries, 
