BIRDS. 



Order VI. STRUTHIOUS. 



Genus LVII. DODO. 



N° i . Hooded D. 3. Nazarene D. 



2. Solitary D. 



BILL large, bending inwards at the middle of the upper 

 mandible, marked with two oblique ribs, and much hooked 

 at the end. 



Noftrils placed obliquely near the edge, in the middle of the 

 bill. 



Legs fhort, thick, feathered a little below the knees : toes, 

 three forward, one backward. 



Didus Ineptus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 267. j„ 



Le Dronte, Brif. Orn. v. p. i$.—Buf. Oif. i. p. 480.— Bont. Ind. or. pi. in HOODED D. 



Pl. LXX. 

 p. 70. 



Dod-eerfen, or Valgh-vogel, Herbert. Trav. p. 382. pl. in p. 383. 



Dodo, Rail Syx. p. 37. 3. — Will. Orn. p. 153. pl. zj.—Ediu. pl. 294. 



'"PHIS uncouth being is rather bigger than a. Swan, and not Description. 

 far fhort of three feet in length*. The bill is ftrong, large, 



• See a painting in the Britijh Mufeum. 



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